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J 

INDIANAPOLIS 

•f 

MEN OF AFFAIRS 

1923 ; 


A volume in which appears a compilation 
of Portraits and Biographies of 
Men of Achievement of 
the Great Indiana 
Capital 



PUBLISHED BY 

THE AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 
Paul Donald Brown, Editor 
















Copyright 1923 

American Biographical Society 



This hook as a whole, and each 
separate subject which it con¬ 
tains, is fully protected under 
copyright. We hereby release, 
however, to any established daily 
newspaper or periodical, for use 
in any regular issue thereof, for 
news purposes, all or any part of 
any biography or any portrait 
herein, if proper credit is given 
“Indianapolis Men 
of Affairs 


American Biographical Society 


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“J NDIANAPOFIS MEN OF AFFAIRS” is primarily a pub¬ 
lisher’s utility library—a work of reference wherein may be 
found, in correct form, basic facts, from birth down to date, re¬ 
garding the lives of Indianapolis men of note or achievement, 
together with halftones from latest photographs of the men re¬ 
ferred to. 

Modern newspapers and periodicals attach great importance to 
illustrations; in fact, most editors regard them as of equal im¬ 
portance with news. 

Usually newspapers require pictures of persons for reproduction 
with current happenings and while they invariably exhaust every 
resource to secure up-to-date photographs, they are often com¬ 
pelled to reprint old-style line cuts or wash drawings or go to 
press with no picture at all. 

The facts regarding men are often jumbled, owing to the necessity 
of gathering them from whatever source available on a moment’s 
notice. Thus, every precaution has been taken to have the facts 
herein correct in every detail and the photographs of recent date, 
with the hope that the work will be a ready reference book for the 
newspaper editor, writer and artist. 

This publication will go to each divisional office of the Associated 
Press, the United Press, and the International News Service in the 
United States, and to the leading illustrated weekly and monthly 
publications under the classification of “National Periodicals.” 

While the natural home of “Indianapolis Men of Affairs” is the 
newspaper and periodical editorial room, the work will, in addi¬ 
tion, be placed in the libraries of each of the social and political 
clubs of Indianapolis and upon the reading-room table of each 
Chamber of Commerce in each capitol city in the country. 

.Most of the photographs in this publication are from the studios 
of Bachrach, Bretzman, Dexlieimer, Moorefield, and Nicholson 
Brothers, to whom much credit is due for the artistic success 
attained. 


Carlyle said — 

“The History of the World 
is the Biographies of Great Hen.” 

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The lives of many of the men in 
this publication stand out as 
notable examples of the type of 
men who have lent their force or 
capital, or both, to the upbuilding 
of Indianapolis, Indiana. Some 
of them pioneered through the 
hardships of the parly days, 
while others battled bravely 
against toppling booms and pro¬ 
longed depressions of a period 
now past. Others, while of more 
recent arrival, Indianapolis 
is glad, to welcome among 
her own. 







INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


n which appears 

a portrait and btadraphical f.'ketch 

* jT' / /P fj U/' JT . y (J 

op each op tnejoticwmd• 


Reilv C. Adams. 9 

George Alig. 11 

Hon. A. B. Anderson 13 

John J. Appel. 15 

Gerritt A. Archibald 17 

Samuel Ashby. 19 

Clifford G. Askin.... 21 

Henry C. Atkins. 23 

William A. Atkins... 25 
John H. Aufderheide 27 
Frederic M. Ayres. .. 29 


U. G. Baker. 31 

Peter F. Balz. 33 

L. L. Banford. 35 

Hale C. Barber. 37 

George M. Barnard.. 39 
Herman J. Barnard. . 41 

A. A. Barnes. 43 

Dr. John F. Barnhill 45 
Fred E. Barrett. 47 


Herbert L. Bass. 49 

Arthur R. Baxter.... 51 
Hon. Joseph E. Bell.. 53 
Dr. David F. Berry. . 55 
Hon. A. J. Beveridge 57 
Dr. R. I. Blakeman.. 59 

A. E. Block. 61 

Benjamin N. Bogue.. 63 
C. A. Bookwalter.... 65 
Louis J. Borinstein. . 67 
Arthur E. Bradshaw 69 
Joseph G. Brannum.. 71 
A. F. Brentlinger. ... 73 
John N. Bromert. . . . 75 
John D. Brosnan.... 77 

Ernest Bross. 79 

Arthur V. Brown... 81 


Hilton U. Brown. 83 

Raymond D. Brown.. 85 
Robert II. Bryson.... 87 
Charles J. Buchanan. 89 
Robert N. Buchanan. 91 
Charles L. Buschmann 93 


Frank A. Butler. 95 

Arthur Buttler. 97 


E. Howard Cadle.... 99 
Henry F. Campbell.. 101 
Thomas F. Carson. . .103 
Hon. Solon J. Carter. 105 
Emerson AV. Chaille.. 107 

Dr. E. D. Clark.109 

Lloyd D. Claycombe. Ill 
Dr. W. F. Clevenger. 113 

Fred Cline.115 

Harry O. Cobb.117 

Charles E. Coffin... .119 
Charles F. Coffin.. . .121 

Ralph L. Colby.123 

Joseph J. Cole.125 

Lewis A. Coleman. .. 127 
Hon. J. A. Collins. .. 129 

Earl R. Conder.131 

Owen J. Conrad.133 

Hon. Linton A. Cox. 135 
Clarence E. Crippin. .137 

James S. Cruse.139 

Dr. John M. Cunning¬ 
ham .141 


Robert F. Daggett.. .143 
Thomas A. Daily.... 145 
James A. Daugherty. 147 
AV. Scott Deming.. . .149 
George Desautels. . . . 151 


George M. Dickson.. 153 
James A. Diggle. .. .155 
James I. Dissette.. . .157 
Hugh Dougherty ... .159 
Brandt C. Downey.. .161 
Charles S. Drake. . . .163 
Fred S. Duesenberg. .165 

Luke W. Duffey.167 

Samuel O. Dungan.. .169 
Frank A. Dunlop... .171 
Caleb S. Eaglesfield. .173 
Dr. Samuel E. Earp.. 175 

C. R. Eggleston.177 

Robert Elliott.179 

Brodehurst Elsey ...181 
Dr. C. P. Emerson.. .183 
Marion E. Ensley... .185 
William P. Evans. . . .187 
Hon. L. B. Ewbank. .189 


Frank B. Flanner.. . 191 

S. A. Fletcher.193 

Frank E. Floyd.195 

Daniel Foley.197 

Herbert W. Foltz.... 199 

B. M. Forbes.201 

Dr. AV. H. Foreman. .203 
George C. Forrey, Jr. .205 
William Fortune .. . .207 
Edward D. Fonts. . . .209 
William S. Frye.211 


Fred C. Gardner.213 

Harry O. Garman.. . .215 
Matthew F. Gartland.217 
A. Bennett Gates...219 
Edward E. Gates... .221 
Frederick E. Gates. .223 









































INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


E. J. Gausepohl.225 

John A. George.227 

Vernon C. Getz.229 

Carl C. Gibbs.231 

A. M. Glossbrenner. .233 
Hon. J. P. Goodrich 235 

C. L. Goodwin.237 

Morton L. Gould.... 239 
Thomas S. Graves...241 
C. A. Greathouse.... 243 
Charles P. Greenen. .245 
Charles F. Gregg. . . .247 

Oren S. Hack.249 

Dr. M. N. Hadley...251 
Frank J. Haight.... 253 
Dr. Wm. C. Hall. .. .255 

J. C. Hardesty.257 

Walter B. Harding. .259 
Edward W. Harris..261 
Orlando D. Haskett . .263 
Robert H. Ilassler. . .265 
Frank D. Hatfield. . .267 
Dr. S. J. Hatfield. . .269 

T. B. Hatfield.271 

Joseph G. Hayes. . . .273 
Dr. Edgar T. Haynes.275 
John 0. Henderson.. 277 

0. C. Herdrich.279 

Edward G. Hereth. . .281 
William Herschell. . .283 

Edwin R. Hisey.285 

William J. Hogan...287 

Jacob F. Iloke.289 

James I. Holcomb. . .291 

Sterling R, Holt.293 

Dr. Thomas C. Hood.295 

John A. Hook.297 

James B. Howard... 299 
Thomas Carr Howe. .301 
H. C. Huffstetter. .. .303 
Dr. C. D. Humes....305 
Frank B. Hunter. .. .307 

Orlando B. lies.309 

William H. Insley...311 
Clarence R. Irish. .. .313 


IN DEX— ( Continued ) 


Dr. Henry Jameson.315 

Guy K. Jeffries.317 

Hon. C. W. Jewett. .319 
Aquilla Q. Jones. .. .321 

Arthur Jordan.323 

Oscar A. Jose.325 

F. W. Jungclaus.327 

J. G. Karstedt.329 

Alfred O. Kauffmann.331 
C. J. Kavanaugh.... 333 

Robert B. Keith.335 

T. J. Kelly.337 

Phil G. Kerz.339 

Earl W. Kiger.341 

John R. Kinghan. .. .343 
Horace E. Kinney...345 

Sol S. Kiser.347 

John S. Kittle.349 

W. W. Knight.351 

J. Edwin Kopf.353 

Frank E. Kotteman. .355 

Leo Krauss.357 

Howard J. Lacy.... 359 
Hon. M. B. Lairy.,.361 
F. II. Langsenkamp. .363 
R, V. Law.365 

B. F. Lawrence.367 

Henry W. Lawrence.369 
Dr. D. W. Layman..371 

Wallace 0. Lee.373 

Irving W. Lemaux. . . 375 
Ralph A. Lemcke. . . .377 
Edwin L. Lennox...379 

C. P. Lesh.381 

Louis IT. Levey.383 

James W. Lilly.385 

Dr. Goethe Link....387 
Frank L. Littleton. . . 389 

Frank C. Lory.391 

Jerome Lyon.393 

George L. Maas.395 

Dr. J. A. MacDonald.397 
Robert A. MacGill. .399 
Robert MacGregor. . .401 


John J. Madden.403 

Harry B. Mahan....405 

Frank P. Manly.407 

Henry A. Mansfield .409 
Walter C. Marmon. . .411 
George J. Marott...413 

F. W. Marschke.415 

Frederick E. Matson.417 

Bert McBride.419 

Hon. R. W. McBride.421 
Dr. C. B. McCulloch. .423 
Joseph A. McGowan.425 

Homer McKee.427 

O. E. McMeans.429 

Uz McMurtrie.431 

Felix M. McWhirter.433 

Sol Meyer.435 

J. P. Michael.437 

Addison F. Miller. . .439 

Dick Miller .441 

Oren A. Miller.443 

Frank V. Mills.445 

Harry B. Millspaugh .447 

Ira A. Minnick.449 

Dr. E. L. Mitchell. . .451 
George II. Moore. .. .453 
Jesse C. Moore.455 


Charles W. Moores. .457 
J. Edward Morris...459 
Charles 0. Murphy..461 

Hon. Harry S. New.463 
Dr. J. R. Newcomb..465 

Dr. T. B. Noble.467 

James W. Noel. . . . 469 
Meredith Nicholson. .471 

Robert P. Oblinger. .473 


George S. Olive.475 

Hon. C. J. Orbison. . .477 
Oren T. Owen.479 


Dr. Lafayette Page..481 
George W. Pangborn.483 
Dr. Hugo 0. Pantzer.485 
Dr. Harry F. Parr. . .487 
Gavin L. Payne.489 




























































INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


INDEX—( Continued ) 


C. C. Perry.491 

Edward E. Petri....493 
Dr. Orange G. Pfaff.495 
Samuel 0. Pickens. . .497 
William A. Pickens. .499 


Ralph B. Polk.501 

John M. Price.503 

Carl J. Prinzler.505 


Leonard M. Quill... .507 


Hon. S. M. Ralston. . 509 
Theo. A. Randall. .. .511 
Truman C. Rapp. . . .513 
Leo M. Rappaport. . .515 

John Rau.517 

Joseph R. Raub.519 

Samuel E. Rauh.521 

G. A. Recker.523 

Harry Reid.525 

Col. J. B. Reynolds. .527 
Edmund Rosenberg. .529 
Albert M. Rosenthal.531 

Dr. David Ross.533 

James A. Ross.535 

J. C. Ruckelshaus. . . .537 
Dr. Karl R, Ruddell.539 

Gerry M. Sanborn. . .541 

Joseph C. Schaf.543 

Eli Schloss.545 

Sol Schloss.547 

Howard Schurmann. . 549 

E. J. Scoonover.551 

William R. Seeker. . .553 


Russel M. Seeds.555 

Harry A. Sharp.557 

Robert H. Sherwood.559 
Richard A. Shirley. . .561 
Burke G. Slaymaker.563 

0. J. Smith.565 

Walter Edgar Smith.567 
Albert G. Snider. . . .569 
Dr. J. P. Spaunliurst .571 
Edgar George Spink.573 
William IT. Stafford.575 
Frank D. Stalnaker. .577 

E. W. Steinhart.579 

Harry A. Stern.581 

Dr. Albert E. Sterne.583 

Charles S. Stone.585 

James Blake Stone. .587 

Elmer W. Stout.589 

E. C. Strathmann. .. .591 
Harry C. Stutz.593 


Hon. Thos. Taggart. .595 

John IT. Talge.597 

Arthur H. Taylor. .. .599 

Carl A. Taylor.601 

Harold Taylor.603 

Win. N. Thompson. . .605 
Henry C. Thornton.. 607 

M. Bert Thurman. .. 609 

Clyde E. Titus.611 

Newton Todd.613 

Robert I. Todd.615 

Dr. Wm. S. Tomlin..617 
Edward R. Treat. . . .619 
James IT. Trimble...621 

N. G. Trowbridge... 623 


Harry D. Tutewiler. .625 
Gen. R. H. Tyndall. .627 

C. M. Valentine.629 

R. P. Van Camp.631 

Frederick Van Nuys.633 

L. M. Wainwright.. .635 

Carl F. Walk.637 

Carl IT. Wallerich... .639 

Frank Wampler.641 

C. E. Whitehill.653 

Hon. W. H. Watson. .643 
George A. Weidely..645 
Dr. Joel Whitaker. . .647 

Jacob S. White.649 

Walter T. White... .651 
Homer L. Wiegand. .655 

John F. Wild.657 

Frederick I. Willis.. .659 
Dr. W. N. Wishard. .661 
H. TI. Woodsmall.. .663 

Evans Woollen .665 

Herbert M. Woollen.667 
Frank F. Woolling. .669 
Kenneth K. Woolling.671 
Charles E. Worrell..673 
B. A. Worthington. .675 

Burrell Wright.677 

Dr. J. Wm. Wright. .679 
Stanley Wyckoff . .. .681 
Thomas A. Wynne . .683 

Charles C. York . .. .685 

Edward W. Zaiser.,687 
William A. Zumpfe. .689 


























































INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



REILY C. ADAMS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


REILY C. ADAMS 

D EILY 0. ADAMS, banker, president of tlie Security Trust 

Company, was born March 7, 1878, at Vincennes, Indiana, the 
son of John C. and Sarah (Culbertson) Adams. His education 
was obtained in the public and high schools of Vincennes. 

He entered the lumber business at Vincennes after leaving 
high school, but in January, 1899, came to Indianapolis to accept 
a clerical position with the Crowder-Mason Shoe Company. A 
year later he was elected secretary-treasurer of the company, 
which position he held until August, 1917, when he was chosen 
president of the Security Trust Company. He retains a director¬ 
ship in the Crowder-Cooper Shoe Company. 

During the war Mr. Adams was active in the various Liberty 
Loan campaigns, and he is among the many men interested in the 
Community Chest plan for Indianapolis charities. 

Mr. Adams has been active in Republican politics for many 
years. From 1914 until 1918 he served as a member of the Marion 
County Council, and during those years and until 1922 he was 
treasurer of both the city and county Republican Central Com¬ 
mittees. He is now treasurer of the City Central Committee and 
the State Republican Committee. 

He is a director of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, a member 
of the Columbia Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Indianapolis Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce, the Highland Golf and Country Club, Marion 
Club, Hoosier Motor Club, the Mystic Shrine, and the Scottish 
Rite Masonic body, of which organization he was a trustee for 
three years. He is a member of the Third Christian Church of 
Indianapolis. 

On November 16, 1904, Mr. Adams married Miss Emma Gib¬ 
son, of Indianapolis. They have three children: Reily G. Adams, 
Sarah Tyce Adams and Martha Gibson Adams. The family home 
is at 4340 Central Avenue. 




INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



GEORGE ALIG 


Photograph by Bretsman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GEORGE ALIG 


EORGE ALIG, manufacturer, president and general manager 



of the Home Stove Company, Kentucky Avenue and Henry 
Street, was born at Grisson, Switzerland, on February 22, 1852, 
son of Baldesaar and Marianna (Casanova) Alig. In the grade 
schools of Grisson and later at Frieburg, Germany, he obtained 
his education. 

In 1868 he joined his brother, who was engaged in private 
banking and loan brokerage business at LaRochelle, France, but 
two years later returned to Switzerland, where he became asso¬ 
ciated with his father in the cattle-raising industry. His father 
was one of the largest landowners in that part of Switzerland. 
Frequently Mr. Alig visited cities in France and Italy in connec¬ 
tion with cattle shipments. 

Upon coming to America in 1872, Mr. Alig did not tarry long 
in the East, but came to Indianapolis, where he became associated 
with D. Root & Company, stove manufacturers. Later he acquired 
an interest in the company, but in 1874 became vice-president and 
manager of the newly organized Indianapolis Stove Company and 
continued as vice-president until 1893, when he disposed of his 
holdings in the company and founded the Home Stove Company. 
He became president and general manager of this company, which 
manufactures the “Model” stoves, ranges and furnaces. He is 
also president of the Home Investment Company. 

Mr. Alig is a member of the National Stove Association and 
the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. For many years he was 
a vice-president of the Indianapolis Msennerchor. He is a 32nd 
degree Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine and a Knights Tem¬ 
plar. Mr. Alig is a Republican. He is interested in travel, and 
since coming to the United States, a half century ago, has made 
twelve trips to Europe. 

On January 8, 1877, Mr. Alig married Miss Cornelia C. 
Schirmer at Indianapolis. They have seven children: George, 
Jr., Delos A., Otto, Clarence S., Cornelius O., Mis. A. Parry, nee 
Agnes, and Stella (deceased) and sixteen grandchildren. The 
family home is at 1609 Park Avenue. 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



HON. A. B. ANDERSON 


Photograph by 


Mecca Studios 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. A. B. ANDERSON 

T F Justice needs a propagandist, then well may it choose the sub- 
A ject of this sketch. Born near Zionsville, Boone County, In¬ 
diana, February 10, 1857, the son of Philander and Emma A. 
Anderson, Albert Barnes Anderson, twenty-two years later, was 
graduated with honors from Wabash College. As a representative 
of this institution, he won the state inter-collegiate oratorical con¬ 
test, and in so doing earned the right to represent the state of 
Indiana in the interstate contest. While studying and practicing 
law in law 7 offices in Indianapolis and Crawfordsville, lie became 
widely known throughout the state. 

In 1882 he married Miss Rose Campbell, of Crawfordsville, 
Indiana. Three years later he formed a law 7 partnership with 
Benjamin Crane, of that city, and this union lasted until Decem¬ 
ber 18, 1902, when the late President Theodore Roosevelt appoint¬ 
ed Mr. Anderson judge of the United States District Court for the 
District of Indiana, the position he now holds. 

As a judge, he is feared by many, admired by others, and 
inspected by all. His career in Indianapolis first commanded 
national attention in the famous dynamite trial in 1912. This is, 
perhaps, the most notable case which lias come before the Federal 
Court in Indiana since Judge Anderson has been on the bench. In 
1915, there was the celebrated Terre Haute fiasco that ended dis¬ 
astrously for the executive of that city. And in 1919 there w 7 as the 
strike of the bituminous coal miners, which created a sensation 
and which gave Judge Anderson one more claim to distinction. 

At no time during his career has a defendant been able to play 
upon the sympathies of this man. Justice has been meted out in a 
fearless manner; punishment, as the only existing corrector of evil, 
has been ordered for rich and for poor alike, and for this, Indi¬ 
anapolis, Indiana, and the country at large are grateful to one who 
has honored an honored position. 

Judge Anderson resides at 1333 North Pennsylvania Street. 
He is a member of the Columbia Club, the Woodstock Club, the 
Contemporary Club, and the University Club. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JOHN J. APPEL 


Photograph by Bachrach 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN J. APPEL 

J OHN J. APPEL, vice-president of Gregory & Appel, Inc., real 
estate operators and general insurance agents, was born at 
Cumberland, Maryland, August 19, 1859. When slightly more 
than nineteen years of age he came to Indianapolis, here to engage 
in the real estate, rental and loan business. In 1881 he formed a 
partnership with Mr. Fred A. Gregory under the firm name 
Gregory & Appel. 

In 1909 the firm was incorporated and, in 1916, Mr. Appel 
and his son, Mr. Fred G. Appel, without changing the corporate 
name, acquired the interests of Mr. Gregory. 

Mr. Appel is vice-president of the Indianapolis Traction & 
Terminal Company; vice-president of the Terre Haute, Indianap¬ 
olis and Eastern Traction Company; secretary of the Indianapolis 
and Cincinnati Traction Company, a director of the Indiana Na¬ 
tional Bank and a director of the Railroad Mens’ Building & Sav¬ 
ings Association. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



GERRITT A. ARCHIBALD 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GERRITT A. ARCHIBALD 

^"^ERRITT A. ARCHIBALD, prominently identified with the 

real estate business of Indianapolis for many years, was born 
at Dnndas, Minnesota, son of George A. and Delilah (Ault) Archi¬ 
bald. His early education was obtained in the public schools of 
Chicago, Illinois, to which city his parents moved when he was 
but nine years of age. 

Upon the completion of this work Mr. Archibald became 
associated with a wholesale haberdashery and hat concern of Chi¬ 
cago with which he remained for a number of years, when he went 
io Texas and there entered the banking business. Four years 
later, however, Mr. Archibald returned to Chicago to engage in the 
haberdashery business and in that city remained until 1895 when 
he came to Indianapolis and here purchased the haberdashery 
store of the late Major Taylor which he continued to operate until 
sold to other interests in 1912. During 1913 he operated a woman’s 
apparel store at Dayton, Ohio, but this undertaking was wiped 
out in the disastrous Ohio flood of that year. 

In 1914, Mr. Archibald entered the real estate business in In¬ 
dianapolis, becoming associated with Emerson W. Chaille & Com¬ 
pany. With this company he remained until 1918, when he joined 
the George IT. Moore & Company organization, his present con¬ 
nection. Mr. Archibald has been actively interested in and closely 
associated with many of the large real estate transactions of the 
city since entering the real estate business and is recognized as an 
authority on appraisals and property valuation. 

In addition to his present association Mr. Archibald is presi¬ 
dent of the Progress Realty Company and the Argle Realty 
Company. 

The marriage of Mr. Archibald to Miss Lavinia Israel oc¬ 
curred at Chicago, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Archibald reside at 
26 Maple Court. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



SAMUEL ASHBY 


Photograph by Bachrach 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


SAMUEL ASHBY 


S AMUEL ASHBY, an able and successful 
member of the bar of Indianapolis, was 
born on a farm near the village of Pittsboro, 
Hendricks County, Indiana, August 24, 1868, 
son of James Samuel and Jane Alexander 
(Watson) Ashby. Ilis parents were reared in 
the vicinity of Louisville, Kentucky, and came 
of old stanch English lineage, both the Ashby 
and Watson families having been founded in 
Virginia in the early Colonial days of our 
national history. Representatives of each 
family were influential and prominent in the 
Old Dominion and all became identified with 
the pioneer settlement of Kentucky. The 
founder of the Ashby family in America w r as 
Captain John Ashby, who immigrated from 
England and became one of the early settlers 
in the Virginia Colony. 

The subject of this sketch gained prom¬ 
inence and honorable prestige in his profes¬ 
sion through his own well directed energies 
and efforts. Ilis early education w r as acquired 
in the public schools of the village of Pittsboro, 
although, due to the death of his father while 
yet a comparatively young man, the son found 
it incumbent upon him to assume the respon¬ 
sibilities of life and provide for his own sup¬ 
port at an early age. Thus it may be said that 
Samuel Ashby, by his own courage and self 
reliance, has pushed forward to a goal of def¬ 
inite achievement and worthy success. 

When but eight years of age, Mr. Ashby 
began working on a farm, after which he was 
employed in tile factories and as a railroad sec¬ 
tion hand. In 1888 he came to Indianapolis 
and here began the study of law under the 
preceptorship of Judge Franklin McCray, 
with whom he was later associated in the prac¬ 
tice of his profession. Finally, in the fall of 
1889, as a result of the careful conservation of 
financial resources, he was able to enter the 
University of Indidana, at Bloomington, where 
he took a partial course in the literary depart¬ 
ment and the full course in the law department, 
from which he graduated in 1891. During all 
of the vacation periods of his college career 
Mr. Ashby, to assist him through college, was 
engaged in general road construction work in 
Northern Indiana, while for a period of one 


year following his graduation he was engaged 
in street construction and concrete construc¬ 
tion work at Middlesborough, Kentucky. In 
1892 he returned to Indianapolis, was admitted 
to the bar, and entered into partnership with 
Judge McCray, previously mentioned, with 
whom he remained in association until the lat¬ 
ter was elected, in 1894, to the bench of the 
Criminal Court. Since 1894 Mr. Ashby has 
continuously conducted an individual practice, 
in which he has gained a place of prominence 
and high standing among his professional 
confreres. 

Mr. Ashby has ever given uncompromising 
allegiance to the Republican party. While he 
has never sought pubilc office, he has since he 
first gained his majority, been an indefatigu- 
able worker upon the occasion of primary and 
general elections and in other party activities. 
He was Chairman of the Marion County Elec¬ 
tion Commission in the election of 1916 and 
during the term of Mayor Charles W. Jewett 
(1918-1922) served the City of Indianapolis as 
Corporation Counsel. In this last mentioned 
capacity he was instrumental in the prepara¬ 
tion of all city, county and state Memorial 
bills presented before the special session of the 
legislature of 1920 and before the regular ses¬ 
sion of 1921. 

Air. Ashby is a member of the Columbia 
Club, Marion Club, Chamber of Commerce, In¬ 
dianapolis Bar Association, Indiana State 
Bar Association and American Bar Associa¬ 
tion and in the Masonic fraternity is a member 
of Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398 F. & A. M. and 
the Scottish Rite. He is attorney for the 
Board of Trustees of the Indiana World War 
Memorial Association, a member and an elder 
of the Central Christian Church and a trustee 
and treasurer of the Board of Ministerial Re¬ 
lief of the Christian Church in the United 
States. 

The marriage of Mr. Ashby to Miss Ida M. 
Reid in Edwards County, Illinois, took place 
September 19, 1894. There are three children, 
Mrs. John L. II. Fuller (Mary A.), Mrs. Earl 
A. Ileassler (Sarah E.), and Samuel R. Mr. 
and Mrs. Ashby reside at 1924 North Delaware 
Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



CLIFFORD G. ASKIN 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CLIFFORD G. ASKIN 

/CLIFFORD G. ASKIN, secretary and treasurer of Royster & 
Askin, morticians, was born in Decatur County, Indiana, 
son of George Askin and Hannah (Harris) Askin. 

In 1903, Mr. Askin and Mr. Charles H. Royster founded the 
Rovster & Askin firm, Mr. Royster becoming President of the 
Company and Mr. Askin secretary and treasurer. 

Mr. Askin is active in various civic affairs in Indianapolis. He 
was a member of the “Committee of Sixty” which was the moving- 
spirit in the creation and building of the Indianapolis Athletic 
Club and which lias since done much in the stimulation of interest 
among members of that organization. He is a member of several 
other clubs and fraternal organizations, including Mystic Tie 
Lodge F. & A. M., the Murat Temple of Mystic Shrine and of the 
Scottish Rite. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



HENRY C. ATKINS 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HENRY C. ATKINS 

TTENRY C. ATKINS, manufacturer, president of the E. 0. 
1 Atkins & Company, the most extensive saw manufacturers 
in the world, was born at Atlanta in Johnson County, Idaho, on 
November 27, 1868, son of Elias C. Atkins and Sarah F. (Parker) 
Atkins. When he was a lad his parents moved to Indianapolis 
where his father founded the E. C. Atkins & Company. 

Mr. Atkins attended the Indianapolis public schools, grad¬ 
uated from The Classical school in Indianapolis and matriculated 
at Yale University in 1885. He graduated from Yale in 1889, 
being twenty years old at the time. He recerced his Bachelor of 
Arts degree. 

Upon returning to Indianapolis after completing his studies 
at Yale University he became superintendent of the E. C. At¬ 
kins & Company plant. In 1892 he was elected vice-president of 
the company and later (1901) elevated to the presidency of the 
company. During the time he has been connected with the com¬ 
pany it has grown steadily until now it leads in the manufacturing 
of saws. 

Saws from the E. C. Atkins & Company plant are in use the 
world over. In the Arctic regions and the forests of the tropical 
regions these Indianapolis-made saws are doing duty. During 
the war the saws used in the spruce forests of the Northwest to 
cut airplane lumber, the saws used in France by the engineers 
and saws used in construction of army barracks were from the 
E. C. Atkins & Company. 

Mr. Atkins is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of 
Commerce, the Indianapolis Board of Trade, the Country Club 
of Indianapolis, and the Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, of Masons. 
He is a member of the First Baptist Church affiliating with the 
church in 1877. 

On January 7, 1896, he married Miss Sue Winter, daughter 
of Ferdinand Winter and Mary (Keyes) Winter. They have 
three children, Elias C. Atkins, Keyes AY. Atkins and Henry C. 
Atkins, Jr. The family home is at 1321 North Meridian Street. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



WILLIAM A. ATKINS 


Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


WILLIAM A. ATKINS 

YV7TLLIAAI A. ATKINS, superintendent of E. C. Atkins & 
Company, was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, July 7, 1879, 
son of George AY. Atkins and Adelaide (Gallup) Atkins. He 
obtained bis early education in tlie public schools of the city of his 
birth, after which he attended Purdue University, from which he 
graduated with the degree of Mechanical Engineer, in the class 
of 1901. 

Immediately following the completion of his college work Mr. 
Atkins became associated with E. C. Atkins & Company, working 
in various capacities until 1910 when he was appointed to the im¬ 
portant position now occupied. In addition to the above men¬ 
tioned business, Mr. Atkins has been actively interested, for the 
past fourteen years, in the operation of the Spencer Hotel in this 
city, being a joint owner with Mr. Fred C. Gardner, elsewhere 
mentioned in this volume, in the real estate and building operated 
by that hotel. In June, 1922, Mr. Atkins, together with Mr. Gard¬ 
ner, jointly acquired a long time lease on the Hotel Severin, located 
at Georgia and Illinois Streets in this city, and is at this time also 
engaged in the operation of that property. 

The marriage of Mr. Atkins to Miss Suemma V. Coleman 
occurred at Indianapolis on November 20, 1907. There is one son, 
AY. Coleman Atkins. The family residence is at 1320 North Merid¬ 
ian Street. 

Air. Atkins is a member of the University Club, AA T oodstock 
Club, Country Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Dramatic Club 
and the Sigma Chi Fraternity. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JOHN H. AUFDERHEIDE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN H. AUFDERHEIDE 

J OHN IT. AUFDERHEIDE, president of the Commonwealth Loan Com¬ 
pany and the Indiana Collateral Loan Company and executive head of 
the loan and investment business bearing his name, was born in the city of 
Indianapolis, February 10, 1865, son of William J. and Elizabeth Aufderheide. 
His education was obtained in the public grade and high schools of the city 
of his birth, immediately upon the conclusion of which he entered the em¬ 
ploy of the old Indiana Banking Company, situated at that time at the corner 
of Meridian and Washington Streets, the present site of L. S. Ayres & Com¬ 
pany. 

Leaving the bank several years later Mr. Aufderheide engaged in the 
general real estate and insurance business but, realizing the demand and 
legitimate need for small loans, the real estate and insurance business was 
gradually dropped and the making of industrial loans developed until it 
became the principle part of the business. 

Five years after engaging exclusively in this line of business in Indianap¬ 
olis the first branch office was established at Marion, Indiana. Since that 
time the business has been steadily enlarged until at present there are twenty 
three branches, located in six different states. 

A pioneer in securing remedial loan legislation, Mr. Aufderheide has 
worked for the betterment and uplift of this necessary business. In conjunc¬ 
tion with the Division of Remedial Loans of the Russell Sage Foundation, of 
New York, and other philanthropic organizations, he helped to secure scien¬ 
tific loan legislation in the State of Indiana, which was the first state in the 
Union to adopt what is now nationally known as the Uniform Small Loan 
Law. In the past decade over half the states have passed legislation similar 
to that enacted in Indiana, and Mr. Aufderheide has assisted in this good 
work in practically every instance. 

He was also for five years National Treasurer of the American Industrial 
Lenders’ Association, which is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of the 
United States of America. The association has for its purposes the procuring 
and enactment of fair and uniform remedial loan legislation in every state 
in the country. 

Besides the industrial loan business Mr. Aufderheide deals extensively 
in the securities of his own companies, and is at this time also president of the 
Cumberland Hydro-Electric Power Company, a Kentucky corporation now 
developing the largest Hydro-Electric Power project in the Middle West. 

Air. Aufderheide resides on West Fifty-sixth Street, opposite the new 
Highland Golf and Country Club grounds. He is a member of the Columbia 
Club, Chamber of Commerce, Art Association of Indianapolis, Iviwanis Club, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, Athenaeum, 
Iloosier Motor Club, and the Old Colony Club of New York. 

The marriage of Mr. Aufderheide to Miss Lucy M. Deel, took place at 
Indianapolis, April 3, 1887. There is a daughter, Mrs. Thomas M. Kaufman, 
nee May Aufderheide, and a son, Rudolph C. Aufderheide, both of whom 
reside in Indianapolis. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



FREDERIC M. AYRES 


Photograph by Baclirach 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OE AFFAIRS 


FREDERIC M. AYRES 

P REDERIC MURRAY AYRES, president of L. S. Ayres & 

Co., was born in Geneva, New York, February 17, 1872, son 
of Lyman S. and Maria Helen (Murray) Ayres. 

When he was two years old his parents moved to Indianapolis, 
and here he received his early education, first in the public schools 
of the city and then in the Indianapolis Classical School for Boys. 
Upon finishing his preparatory course, he entered the Sheffield 
Scientific School of Yale University, graduating in 1892. 

His father had founded the present firm of L. S. Ayres & 
Co., and a year after his graduation from college, Frederic Ayres 
entered the firm. Three years later, upon the death of his father, 
he was elected president of the company. Mr. Ayres is also presi¬ 
dent of the Murray Investment Company and treasurer of the 
Chandler & Taylor Company. 

Mr. Ayres was one of the “dollar a year” men at Washington 
from February, 1918, to April, 1919, serving as director of stores 
and requirements, and as director of the Department of Supplies 
at national headquarters of the American Red Cross. The Ayres 
store in Indianapolis was also a scene of ceaseless activity in Red 
Cross work during the war. From May, 1919, to October of that 
year, Mr. Ayres was in Paris, France, as director of the Depart¬ 
ment of Property Operations of the European Commission of the 
American Red Cross. 

Mr. Ayres is a member of the Columbia Club, University 
Club, Country Club, Woodstock Club, Hoosier Athletic Club, arid 
the Indianapolis Athletic Club. 

The marriage of Mr. Ayres and Miss Alma Hoegli took place 
at Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 11, 1901. They have three chil¬ 
dren: Lyman Hoegli, Ann, and Frederic Murray, Jr. The home 
is at 1201 North Delaware Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Moorefield 

ULYSSES G. BAKER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


U. G. BAKER 

T T (}. BAKER, manufacturer, president of the Baker Brothers 
Glass Company, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, and associated in 
several Indianapolis business enterprises, was born at Wheeling, 
West Virginia, June 17, 1864, son of Christopher DeGraffe and 
Martha (Edmonston) Baker. His father, in 1865, was the inven¬ 
tor of the single puddling furnace, now after a period of sixty 
years, still used by all producers of Muck iron in the industry. 
His father, also was one of the original stockholders and actively 
connected with the Bellaire Fail and Iron Company of Bellaire, 
Ohio, now a part of the United States Steel Corporation. 

After attending the public schools at Wheeling, West Vir¬ 
ginia, Mr. Baker, of this sketch, became associated with the 
Pennsylvania Railroad at Bellaire, Ohio, which city was then re¬ 
garded as the center of the glass manufacturing industry of the 
United States. In 1885, he was appointed assistant secretary of 
the Bellaire Window Glass Company, but in this capacity he re¬ 
mained for only one year, for upon the conclusion of this work he, 
together with associates, removed to Findlay, Ohio, where they 
established the first window glass plant in the newly discovered 
natural gas fields of that state. Upon the exhaustion of natural 
gas for industrial purposes in Northwestern Ohio, Mr. Baker, in 
1893, with his brother, John H. Baker, moved the business to In¬ 
diana, establishing window plants at, Arcadia and Shirley, Indiana, 
known as Baker Brothers Glass Company. In 1901 Mr. Baker 
moved with his family to Indianapolis and has been a resident of 
this city ever since. 

Mr. Baker has been actively engaged in the manufacture of 
window glass for thirty-eight years and has seen during that time 
a complete change of ownership of every plant engaged in the 
business and today Mr. Baker is the only individual manufacturer 
still in the active manufacture of window glass. 

In the year 1907, owing to the exhaustion of natural gas at both 
Arcadia and Shirley, the plants of Baker Brothers Glass Company 
were removed to Okmulgee, Oklahoma, where the business is still 
continued. 

Mr. Baker is a member of the Woodstock Club, the Indianap¬ 
olis Athletic Club, the Marion Club, and is affiliated with the 
Meridian M. E. Church. In the Masonic fraternity lie has attained 
to the 32nd degree. 

The marriage of Mr. Baker to Miss Mary Eleanor Ruthrauff 
occurred November 14, 1889, at Findlay, Ohio. There is one son, 
John E. Baker, who now resides at Okmulgee, Oklahoma, and who 
is in charge of his father’s interests there. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



PETER F. BALZ 


Photograph by Dexlieimer 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


PETER F. BALZ 

DETER E. BALZ, building and home contractor. President of 
^ The Jose-Balz Company and Jose-Balz Realty Company, 
Secretary of The Jose-Kulm Lumber Company and Vice-Presi¬ 
dent of the City Builders Realty Company, was born July 23rd, 
1870, at Indianapolis, son of Peter F. Balz and Elizabeth (Baum) 
Balz. He was educated in the Indianapolis Public Schools. 

Upon completing his schooling, he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, 
to become associated with relatives in the Baum & Balz Company, 
wholesale hatters. In 1889, Mr. Balz returned to Indianapolis and 
here founded the Danbury Hat Company, which he conducted 
until 1911. 

In 1906, however, he had joined with Oscar A. Jose, in form¬ 
ing The Jose-Balz Company, which was incorporated in 1907. Mr. 
Balz was elected president of the company in which capacity he 
has since continued. The four companies in which Mr. Balz is an 
officer, work in conjunction in the business of building homes of 
a higher type for the more substantial citizens. 

With the formation of the four companies, Mr. Balz and his 
associates formulated the policy of building high grade homes on 
a. payment plan basis, very similar to the plan in use for the pur¬ 
chase of less expensive homes, realizing that a large number of 
men of considerable means do not find it convenient or advantage¬ 
ous to immediately invest large sums of money in a suitable home 
but prefer to acquire homes under a deferred plan of payment. 

The Jose-Balz Company were pioneers in the building of high 
grade homes in large numbers, and have done much toward ele¬ 
vating the standard of homes in Indianapolis. Many sections of 
the city have been greatly beautified and improved by their work. 
Notable examples are the splendid homes on Fall Creek Parkway, 
north of Thirtieth Street, and Central Court. With all of these 
years of building, there has been a decided absence of duplication 
in design of the homes which have been erected, each one having 
its own individual style of architecture. 

Mr. Balz is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Indianapolis Mannachoir, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, a 32nd degree Mason and a member 
of the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

Mr. Balz married Miss Lydia Jose, at Indianapolis, October 
15th, 1896. They have four children: Mrs. William Russell 
Moore, nee Helen Balz, Miss Norma L. Balz, Miss Josephine Balz 
and Miss Edna Balz. The family home is at 3038 Fall Creek 
Parkway. 


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L. L. BANFORD 


Photograph by Mecca Studios 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 


L. L. BANFORD 


L. BANFORD, owner of the Stewart-Warner Products Ser¬ 



vice Station and factory representative for Illinois, Indiana, 
Wisconsin and Kentucky, for the Stewart-Warner Speedometer 
Corporation of Chicago, was born at Danville, Kentucky, Febru¬ 
ary 6,1876, son of William H. and Laura (Lathan) Banford. His 
early education was obtained in the public schools of Danville, 
Kentucky, but in 1889, he moved with his parents to Chicago, 
Illinois, and there, in 1890, graduated from high school and busi¬ 
ness college. 

Upon the completion of this work Mr. Banford became asso¬ 
ciated, as a buyer, with the Wells & Nelleger Wholesale Hardware 
Company, with which company he remained until 1900 when he 
became a traveling salesman for the Corbin Lock Company, of 
New Britain, Connecticut. In 1910, Mr. Banford joined the 
Stewart-Warner organization as a traveling representative and 
in this capacity remained until 1912, when he came to Indianapolis 
as branch manager for the same company. On January 1, 1919, 
Mr. Banford bought the Stewart-Warner Company branch and 
this he has since operated as sole owner and manager. 

Mr. Banford is a member of the Highland Golf and Country 
Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Columbia Club and the Indi¬ 
anapolis Automobile Trade Association, of which he has been a 
director for the past twelve years. 

The marriage of Mr. Banford to Miss Julia Rudy occurred at 
Henderson, Kentucky, December 15, 1908. 


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HALE C. BARBER 


Photograph■ hy Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HALE C. BARBER 

TJf ALE C. BARBER, automobile distributor, was born in Ox¬ 
ford, Michigan, April 30, 1879, the son of Daniel C. and Mary 
(Cluss) Barber. After completing his early education, Mr. Bar¬ 
ber became engaged in the paint manufacturing business, and as 
the result of close study and untiring efforts became vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Royal Crown Lead Company of Detroit, Michigan. 
Upon the termination of this business, Mr. Barber entered the 
manufacture of dry colors with the Cleveland Color Company, of 
Cleveland, Ohio. 

About this time Mr. Barber saw the possibilities of motor 
cars, and through the development of his sales effort became sales 
manager of a number of automobile manufacturers. He came to 
Indianapolis in 1914 as a wholesale representative for the In¬ 
dianapolis Branch of the Ford Motor Company. 

In 1917, together with Mr. C. O. Warnock, he incorporated 
the Barber-Warnock Company, of which he has been continuously 
president. 

Mr. Barber is an active representative of Indianapolis busi¬ 
ness life. He is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Chamber of Commerce, Columbia Club, Kiwanis Club, Exchange 
Club, Irvington Golf Club, and the Aero Club. 

Mr. Barber’s place of business is at 813 East Washington 
Street and he resides at 99 North Hawthorne Lane. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



GEORGE M. BARNARD 


Photograph by Moorefiela 













INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GEORGE M. BARNARD 

EORGE M. BARNARD, member of the firm of Ralston, 
^ Gates, Lairy, Van Nuys and Barnard, attorneys, is a native 
Hoosier, having been born at New Castle, Indiana, June 6, 1881, 
son of A illiam O. and Mary Y. (Ballenger) Barnard. His early 
education was obtained in the public and high schools of the city 
of his birth, after which he entered the Law Department of the 
University of Michigan and from that institution graduated in 
1903, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. 

For one year immediately following his graduation from the 
University of Michigan Mr. Barnard practiced law at New Castle, 
at the end of which time he was elected prosecuting attorney for 
the 53rd Judiciary Circuit in and for Henry County, Indiana, and 
in that capacity served for two terms until January 1, 1910. In 
September, 1910, Mr. Barnard was elected Mayor of the city of 
New Castle, by the Common Council of New Castle to fill the unex¬ 
pired term of Judge M. E. Forkner to January 1, 1914. 

Upon the conclusion of the last mentioned term of office, Mr. 
Barnard again entered the general practice of law, remaining in 
New Castle until April 1, 1921, when he was appointed a member 
of the Public Service Commission of Indiana by Governor Warren 
T. McCray to fill the unexpired term of the late Paul P. Haynes, 
to May 1, 1924. Mr. Barnard served as a member of the Public 
Service Commission of Indiana but one year, however, retiring on 
April 1, 1922, to enter the firm of which he has since been a 
member. 

Mr. Barnard is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Associa¬ 
tion, Columbia Club, New Castle Westwood Country Club, New 
Castle Rotary Club, Eagles Lodge at New Castle, Benevolent and 
Protective Order of Elks and the Friends Church. 

The marriage of Mr. Barnard to Miss Marion H. Dingee took 
place at West Grove, Pennsylvania, October 4, 1911. There are 
five children, Mary, Margaret, Julia, Ruth and William O. Barn¬ 
ard II. 


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Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 

HERMAN J. BARNARD 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HERMAN J. BARNARD 


T HERE can be no doubt that the character 
and environment of man’s ancestors ex¬ 
ert an influence upon the manner in which he 
meets the issues of life, and it is curious to note 
how sterling qualities of grit and perseverance, 
acquired in a strenuous battle with the forces 
of nature, adapt themselves, though still easily 
recognized, to the problems of an easier 
civilization. 

William Barnard was one of those early 
Quaker settlers in North Carolina, where bis 
son, Barzillia G. Barnard, was born in 1817. 
When the lad was two years old bis father be¬ 
came one of that army of hardy pioneers who 
gathered together their few household posses¬ 
sions and assisted in spreading the white man’s 
empire westward. Braving the dangers of the 
unbroken and practically unexplored primeval 
forests, he made bis way with his family into 
the wilderness and founded a home in the then 
thinly settled district of Fayette County, 
Indiana. 

Inheriting the adventurous spirit of his 
father, Brazillia, when he reached man’s es¬ 
tate, sought a new location on the banks of 
Blue River, in the western part of Rush 
County, Indiana. Here he settled, cleared the 
ground, and created a thrifty farm where dense 
forests had stood. He married Rachael Rob¬ 
erts, daughter of a neighbor, and they raised 
to maturity ten out of eleven children born to 
them. 

It was among such surroundings that Her¬ 
man J. Barnard grew to manhood, living the 
industrious life of the Indiana farmer boy, in- 
nured to the heavy labor of those days and toil¬ 
ing from daylight till dark with the character¬ 
istic vigor and cheerfulness of the country- 
raised boy. He attended the district school 
during the winter months and afterward spent 
a few terms in the old Spiceland Academy, a 
Quaker institution. 

Upon reaching his majority, Herman J. 
Barnard joined his brother, Granville S., in the 
retail lumber business in Franklin, Indiana, 


later acquiring a share in a saw mill at Arling¬ 
ton. About 1893 he sold his interest and moved 
to Indianapolis. 

At that time Indiana was recognized as a 
lumber center of importance, the state produc¬ 
ing great quantities of timber of unequaled 
quality. Having had considerable experience 
in buying timber, manufacturing it into lumber, 
and selling the stock, and with a keen view of 
the future, Mr. Barnard perceived the possi¬ 
bilities of veneer manufacturing and in 1907 
organized the Central Veneer Company of 
Indianapolis. 

Owing to this careful management and the 
quality of its product the little company pros 
pered and became known as one of the leaders 
in a territory where there were many veneer 
mills. Starting with one slicer and establishing 
an enviable reputation on quartered oak veneer, 
the company later installed both lathe and saw 
and manufactured veneers of all kinds, cutting 
large quantities of imported mahogany logs. 

It was but natural that a man of Mr. Bar¬ 
nard’s integrity and business ability should 
feel the call and devote some of his energies to 
civic development. Though of a retiring and 
modest disposition, a direct heritage from his 
Quaker ancestry, Herman J. Barnard exercises 
a strong and recognized influence on the af¬ 
fairs of his city and state, and he is an honored 
member of such organizations as Indianapolis 
Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Marion 
Club, and Indianapolis Athletic Club; endowed 
with the confidence and respect of his friends, 
business associates and community. 

He is also vice-president and general man¬ 
ager of the Central Veneer Company, vice- 
president of the City Trust Company, president 
of the Indiana Quartered Oak Veneer Associa¬ 
tion, and a member of the executive committee 
of the National Veneer and Panel Manufac¬ 
turers’ Association. 

On December 8, 1889, Mr. Barnard married 
Miss Mary E. Ilvder at Franklin, Indiana. 
They reside at 1214 College Avenue. 


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Photograph by Blank & Stollcr—New York 

A. A. BARNES 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ALBERT A. BARNES 


A LBERT A. BARNES, president of the 
Udell Works and for more than half a 
century a resident of Indianapolis, was horn 
at Stockbridge, Vermont, February 14, 1839, 
son of Joseph and Eliza (Simpson) Barnes. 

A human life is interesting for its experi¬ 
ence, its solved problems, its duties and re¬ 
sponsibilities discharged, and the expression 
of those living and vital elements of character 
as well as its practical action. On all of these 
points Albert A. Barnes is a notable figure in 
Indiana citizenship. When but five years of 
age his parents moved to Springfield, Massa¬ 
chusetts, which was his home until he was ten. 
As one source of revenue to defray expenses 
of the large family of which he was a member, 
he was selling candy and peanuts at the age of 
six. At nine years of age he began working 
on a horse ferry over the river at ITolvoke, 
Massachusetts, that employment being termin¬ 
ated when the ferry was destroyed by floods. 
He also worked in a saw mill and stave factory 
at Winchester, New Hampshire, until he was 
eleven. At twelve he became an employee in a 
woolen factory at which place he advanced to 
the position of second overseer shortly after 
his sixteenth birthday. 

In the meantime, however, Mr. Barnes’ 
father had become incapacitated for hard work 
and in view of the fact that the factory was on 
the decline, the son led the family, as its chief 
executive head, to a farm in New Hampshire 
and there resorted to wringing a living from 
the stony soil of New England. After one 
year on the farm he left it and with his mother 
and the other children, went to Springfield, 
Massachusetts, to learn the art of photography, 
which was then in its crude infancy. Having 
mastered the fundamental principles of the art, 
Air. Barnes took an old fashioned photograph 
car, drawn by horses, and traveled about vari¬ 
ous sections of New England and for a time 
also had a studio on Broadway in New York 
City and at Providence, Rhode Island. 

At the age of twenty-one, in 1860, Mr. 
Barnes came West and opened a photograph 
studio at Rockford, Illinois. While at Rock¬ 
ford, on April 2, 1861, he married Abbey C. 
Clayton. From Rockford he then moved his 
business to Beloit, Wisconsin, and while living 
there was drafter for army service, but on ac- 
county of his own heavy family responsibili¬ 


ties, still contributing to the support of his 
parents, as well as his own household, he hired 
a substitute. Leaving his wife to run the gal¬ 
lery at Beloit he went South for the purpose , 
of photographing war scenes at Murfreesboro 
and Nashville, Tennessee. 

Returning in the spring of 1864, Mr. Barnes 
soon thereafter came to Indianapolis where he 
lias since continuously resided. He established 
a gallery on Washington Street, at the present 
site of the New York Store and doubtless there 
are many old fashioned photographs much 
cherished by families living in Indianapolis, 
the product of Barnes, the Photographer, who 
was in that business here until 1867. In the 
year last mentioned he left photography to en¬ 
gage in the commission business, and, where 
the Wm. II. Block Store now stands, he pros¬ 
pered as a commission merchant until 1882 
when lie bought the Udell Works to which he 
has since given his chief attention in the man¬ 
ufacture of furniture and specialties. 

The business energy and resources of Air. 
Barnes have been helpful to many institutions 
of the city. When the LTnion Trust Company 
was organized, over a quarter of a century ago, 
he became one of the directors and has been on 
the board ever since. In 1901 he was one of the 
purchasers of the old State Bank and assisted 
in organizing the Columbia Bank, of which he 
became a vice-president and which was later 
absorbed by the National City Bank. He also 
took the lead in the reestablishment of Frank¬ 
lin College, now one of the leading educational 
institutions of Indiana, and as vice-president of 
the Claypool Hotel, assisted in building that 
edifice. At the organization of the Y. AI. C. A. 
he was president of the Board of Trustees and 
chairman of the Building Committee and in six 
days raised one hundred and forty thousand 
dollars. In 1916 Mr. Barnes completed fifty 
years of continuous membership in the First 
Baptist Church of Indianapolis. 

At the age of twenty-one Mr. Barnes cast 
his first vote for a Republican president and 
during the subsequent years his record is one 
of unwavering fidelity to that party. 

To Air. and Mrs. Barnes, the latter of whom 
died February 28, 1917, were born two chil¬ 
dren; Lena V., who died at the age of four and 
a half years; and Nellie E., who died when 
fifteen. 


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Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 

DR. JOHN F. BARNHILL 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. JOHN F. BARNHILL 


J OHN F. BARNHILL, M. D., F. A. C. S., son 
of Robert and Angeline Barnhill, was 
born in Illinois, 1865. lie is descended from 
New York and Pennsylvania Colonial and 
Revolutionary ancestors. Ilis maternal great¬ 
grandfather, Solomon Finch, and his brother 
John, were Indiana pioneers, coming to Con- 
nersville from New York in 1814 and later set¬ 
tling at Noblesville. Ilis great-grandfather 
and grandfather were among the pioneers set¬ 
tling in the Iloosier Capitol in 1820. 

Dr. John F. Barnhill, of this sketch, was 
educated in the public schools, Central Normal 
College and Union High School. He began the 
study of medicine with Dr. H. S. Herr, of 
Cleveland, Ohio, and later continued under 
the preceptorship of Dr. Joseph Eastman, of 
Indianapolis, with whose finely equipped hos¬ 
pital he was identified for three years. Dur¬ 
ing this time he assisted in many operations 
and gained much valuable clinical and tech¬ 
nical experience. He was graduated from the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, winning 
the faculty gold medal for highest average 
scholarship. After graduation he passed the 
competitive examination for internship secur¬ 
ing choice of places. Ilis first year of profes¬ 
sional work was in the Indianapolis City Dis¬ 
pensary, after which he located in Indianap¬ 
olis where he continued in general practice for 
six years. 

In 1895 Dr. Barnhill decided to devote his 
entire attention to the study and treatment of 
the diseases of the ear, nose and throat. Ac¬ 
cordingly he studied these subjects in New 
York and London, six months at the New York 
Polyclinic, the New 5 ork Eye and Ear In¬ 
firmary and the Manhattan Eye and Ear In¬ 
firmary and six months at the Central London 
Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. Returning to 
Indianapolis he practiced these specialities for 
three years and again went abroad for further 
research, taking courses in operative surgery 
in Berlin, Vienna and London. In 1900 he 
again returned to Indianapolis where he has 
since been engaged in the practice of special 
surgery. He has during this period accom 


plished much as a teacher and writer on sur¬ 
gical subjects. 

For three years Dr. Barnhill was a lecturer 
in the Central College of Physicians and Sur¬ 
geons, was then Professor of Physiology and 
from 1898 to 1905 held the chair of diseases of 
the ear, nose and throat. He was also secre¬ 
tary of the college. In 1907 the Indiana Med¬ 
ical College and the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons were merged and taken over by the 
Indiana University as the Indiana University 
School of Medicine in which institution he ac¬ 
cepted, and until recently filled the chair of 
Otology, Rhinologv and Laryngology. At 
present he is Professor and Head of the depart¬ 
ment of Surgery of the Head and Neck in this 
school. He is a member of the Indianapolis 
Medical Society; of the American Medical As¬ 
sociation; of the Indiana State Medical Society; 
for two years, 1901 to 1903, secretary of the 
Section on Laryngology and Otology, American 
Medical Association, and in 1904 was chairman 
of the same ; is a fellow of the American Rhinol- 
ogical, Otological and Laryngological Associa¬ 
tion ; a fellow of the American Otological So¬ 
ciety; fellow of the American Laryngological 
Society; a fellow of the American Academy of 
Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology and a fel¬ 
low of the American College of Surgeons. lie 
is the principal author of a complete text book 
on Diseases of the Ear, which has been extens¬ 
ively used in many countries; also of many 
papers on surgical subjects and diseases of the 
ear, nose and throat. He is consultant in dis¬ 
eases of the ear, nose and throat at the various 
hospitals of Indianapolis and has appeared be¬ 
fore many state societies to lecture on surgical 
topics. 

Dr. Barnhill is a member of the University 
Club, is a Nu Sigma Nu, Sigma Xi, a thirty- 
second degree Mason and a life member of the 
Mystic Shrine. lie and Miss Celeste Terrell 
were married at Lynchburg, Ohio, in 1890. 
Mrs. Barnhill was born at Lynchburg and is a 
daughter of Benjamin West and Asenath 
(Johnson) Terrell, descendants of colonial 
families of Pennsylvania and Virginia. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



FRED E. BARRETT 


Photograph hy Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRED E. BARRETT 

U 1 RED E. BARRETT, of the Continental Finance and Securi- 
1 ties Company and for many years actively identified with 
Democratic politics in the state of Indiana, was born at Greenfield, 
Indiana, January 12, 1882. His early life was that of the average 
boy of the small city but, determined to become an attorney by 
profession, fought his way through school and, in 1903, was ad¬ 
mitted to the practice of law before the Indiana bar, having grad¬ 
uated in that year from the Indiana Law School, from which he 
received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. 

For a number of years Mr. Barrett was engaged in the private 
practice of law in Indianapolis, although some ten years ago he 
began to take a part in political affairs and in 1913 was elected 
president of the Indiana Democratic Club, which position he 
filled for one term, when he was elected Democratic County Chair¬ 
man for the period 1913-14. From 1915 to 1916 Mr. Barrett was 
City Attorney of Indianapolis, since which time lie has devoted 
himself to the Continental Finance & Securities Company, which, 
together with others, he formed and of which he has continuously 
been an officer. 

Probably the most distinctive work for which Mr. Barrett 
became known throughout the Commonwealth was his association 
with the Indiana Democratic Club, as president of that organiza¬ 
tion. As a result of his efforts and energy in the administration of 
the affairs of the Club he gained general recognition through the 
state as a successful and aggressive man of affairs. 

Mr. Barrett is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State 
and American Bar Associations, the Chamber of Commerce, the 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Indiana Democratic Club, the 
Highland Golf and Country Club, The Little Theatre Society, the 
Academy of Music and in the Masonic fraternity is a member of 
Oriental Lodge No. 500, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite and Murat 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

The marriage of Air. Barrett to Miss Leore Jane Barrett of 
Kniglitstown, Indiana, occurred at that place, June 18, 1903. 
There is one daughter, Betty Jane. 


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OF AFFAIRS 



HERBERT L. BASS 


Photograph hy Dexlieimer 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HERBERT LAWRENCE BASS 


L_T ERBERT LAWRENCE BASS, architect, senior member of 
* ^ Bass, Knowlton and Company, 312 ' ortli Meridian Street, 
was born in Indianapolis on November 13, 1877. He is a son of 
George E. and Emma (Wickard) Bass. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the Indianapolis public schools, and his first training 
under W. H. Bass, an uncle, then teacher of manual training at 
the old high school. 

When fifteen years of age, Herbert L. of this sketch, became 
office boy in the office of L. H. Gibson, architect. He remained 
one year with Mr. Gibson and subsequently during the next eleven 
years was connected with several architectural firms, reaching 
the post of head draftsman when he was twenty-two years old. 

At the age of twenty-six he began the practice of architecture 
under the firm name of Herbert L. Bass & Company. In 1921, 
Lynn O. Knowlton, a consulting engineer, joined the firm and it 
became known as Bass, Knowlton and Company. 

At the time Mr. Bass began architectural work, and particu¬ 
larly during the critical financial times of 1892-3, salaries were 
anything but large and in this connection it is of interest to note 
that Mr. Bass had the courage to enter upon a professional career, 
which paid him to start the munificent sum of three dollars and a 
half a week. In those days the “peak” salary for head draftsmen 
was about $25.00 a week, while the average apprentice today re¬ 
ceives a sum equal to that figure, or more. 

Public schools, business buildings and residences designed and 
tlieir construction supervised by Mr. Bass, include the estates of 
Messrs. J. A. Allison, S. A. Fletcher, C. B. Sommers, G. M. San¬ 
born, the business buildings of Mr. Carl G. Fisher, The Gibson 
Company, the Frank Hatfield Company, the entire plant of the 
Cole Motor Car Company and other buildings such as that of the 
Highland Golf and Country Club of Indianapolis, the Logans- 
port High School, Logansport, Indiana, the Greencastle High 
School, Greencastle, Indiana, and the Ben Hur Lodge and office 
building at Crawfordsville, Indiana. 

Mr. Bass is a founder member of the Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, a member of the Columbia Club, the Indianapolis Chamber 
of Commerce, the Hoosier Athletic Club, the Scientecli Club, the 
Rotary Club, the American Institute of Architects, the Indiana 


Society of Architects, the Indianapolis Architects Association, the 
Sons of the American Revolution, the Marion County Fish, Game 
and Forest Association, Indiana Society of Pioneers, Sons of 
American Revolution and Masonic bodies. 

Mr. Bass married Miss Flora I. Logan, of Indianapolis in 
this city on January 1, 1900. They have four children, Lawrence 
AY. Bass, Aliss Janet Bass, Herbert Logan Bass, and Robert Ran¬ 
dall Bass. The family home is at 4350 North Pennsylvania Street. 


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ARTHUR R. BAXTER 


Photograph by Dexheimer 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ARTHUR R. BAXTER 


RTHUR R. BAXTER, manufacturer, president and general 



manager of the Keyless Lock Company, and associated in 
many Indianapolis industries, was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, 
December 8,1876, son of Emory and Mary Alice (Jordan) Baxter. 
He received his education in the public schools of Washington, 


D. C. 


When twenty-two years of age, Mr. Baxter became a partner 
in the Keyless Lock Company, then a small concern. He was 
made manager at that time, and under his supervision the com¬ 
pany has continuously grown to a place of more than passing im¬ 
portance in the industrial life of Indianapolis. The chief product 
of the Keyless Lock Company in the early days of its formation 
was the manufacture of keyless lock boxes and fixtures for post- 
offices. 

In addition to the keyless lock boxes and postoffice fixtures 
the company now manufactures steel furniture in large volume 
for commercial and industrial offices as well as for postoffice 
purposes. In fact, during the last decade this branch of the com¬ 
pany’s business has become, in itself, an important industry. 

Mr. Baxter is the principal owner of the Furnace Office 
Furniture Company, the Wilbur Johnson Company, distributors 
of Hupmobile automobiles in Indiana, and the Loco Light Com¬ 
pany, manufacturing locomotive head lights. In 1920 he was 
elected State Senator from Marion County, his term to expire 
in January, 1925. For twenty years Mr. Baxter has been active 
in the civic and industrial affairs of Indianapolis. From 1912 to 
1922, inclusive, he was a director in the Indianapolis Chamber of 
Commerce, he is a past president of the Indianapolis Metal Trades 
Association, and is also a past president of the Associated Em¬ 
ployers of Indianapolis. 

Mr. Baxter has devoted many years of service to the Masonic 
orders of which he is a member. In 1912 he was elected a 33d 
degree Mason, during which year he was Master of Mystic Tie 
Lodge No. 398, F. and A. M., and in 1913 was a Most Wise and 
Perfect Master of Rose Croix, Scottish Rite Masonry. He is a 
member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Indianap¬ 
olis Athletic Club, the Columbia Club, the Highland Golf and 
Country Club, and the Rotary Club. 

On February 18, 1901, Mr. Baxter married Miss Frances D. 
Doyle at Indianapolis. They have three sons and a daughter— 
Emory R. Baxter, R. Norman Baxter, Frederick Baxter and Miss 
Marion Delight Baxter. The family home is at 892 Middle Drive, 
Woodruff Place. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JOSEPH E. BELL 


Photograph by Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. JOSEPH E. BELL 


J OSEPH E. BELL, attorney, was born on a farm in 
Union County, Indiana, November 28, 1865, son of 
John M. and Mary J. (Luse) Bell. The early educa¬ 
tion of the subject of this sketch was obtained in the 
common schools of the county of his birth, after which 
he taught school for a period of years and then entered 
the law r department of the University of Michigan from 
which he graduated in 1888. 

Upon the completion of his college work, Mr. Bell 
came immediately to Indianapolis where he engaged in 
the general practice of law. This he continued until 
the year 1913, when he became a candidate for Mayor 
of Indianapolis on the Democratic ticket. He w’as 
elected and served from January 1914 until January, 
1918. Upon the termination of his term of office Mr. 
Bell resumed the practice of law which he has since 
continued to this time. 

During the four years that Joseph E. Bell was 
mayor of the City of Indianapolis, it is of particular 
interest to state that a greater number of public im¬ 
provements of great magnitude were constructed than in 
any other like period in the city’s history. During the 
period of time that he was mayor of the city, he took 
advantage of the low cost of labor and material and 
constructed many great public improvements to the 
great advantage of the growth and development of In¬ 
dianapolis, at an extremely low cost to the taxpayers. 

His administration constructed what is commonly 
known as Pogues Run Drain, changing the open stream 
known as Pogues Run, which ran through the heart of 
the city, into a covered concrete sewer of such great 
magnitude that four automobiles can be driven abreast 
through this great concrete drain. 

His administration planned and completed the great 
I lood Levy extending from Riverside Park along the 
west bank of White River to the southern portion of 
the city. This flood levy is of such magnitude that a 
boulevard seventy-five feet in width is maintained upon 
the top of the same. The plans were made and the 
work completed during his administration, thereby form¬ 
ing a permanent protection against future floods for all 
of that portion of Indianapolis which lies west of White 
River. 

His administration caused all of the steam railroads 
of the city to unite in a uniform plan for track eleva¬ 
tion as a result of which the tracks have been elevated 
to such height as to leave the streets of the city at their 
natural level, free from unsightly tunnels at the points 
where the streets run beneath the elevated tracks. While 
this great work of track elevation could not be completed 
within the period of his term of office, the completion 


of this work shows the wisdom of the plan adopted by 
his administration and has resulted in great benefit not 
only to the railroads but also to the southern portion of 
Indianapolis. 

His administration extended and developed the 
boulevard system which constitute the beautiful drives 
m connection with the public parks of the city. During 
his term the Fall Creek Boulevard, Maple Road Boule¬ 
vard, Burdsal Boulevard, running from Northwestern 
Avenue into Riverside Park and the Pleasant Run 
Boulevard in connection with Garfield Park were com¬ 
pleted. His administration constructed the Sunken Gar¬ 
dens in Garfield Park which is one of the beautiful show 
places of Indianapolis. 

During his term of office the downtown street cars 
were rerouted so as to relieve the conjested condition 
of street car traffic on Washington Street. His ad¬ 
ministration compelled the Street Railway Company to 
construct double tracks upon Indiana Avenue, thus giv¬ 
ing a straight, continuous line for street car traffic 
extending to Riverside Park and it also compelled the 
Street Railway Company to construct double tracks 
upon Alabama Street extending the line running south 
upon Alabama Street to Washington Street. 

His administration constructed the Meridian Street 
bridge across Fall Creek. His administration let a new 
contract for the public lighting of streets of the city, 
reducing the price per light from $71.00 to $41.00 per 
annum. This contract resulted in a great saving to the 
taxpayers of the city. 

His administration completed plans for the extension 
of the Maple Road Boulevard from Northwestern Ave¬ 
nue to White River and for the construction of a great 
concrete bridge across White River which would have 
united the entire boulevard system of the city. After 
completing plans for the construction of this bridge, he 
was prevented from carrying it out by reason of the 
bitter opposition of one of the public newspapers of 
Indianapolis, which opposed his administration in prac¬ 
tically all of the great improvements attempted. His 
term in office ivas noted for its great business accom¬ 
plishments. 

Mr. Bell is a member of the Indiana State Bar As¬ 
sociation, Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade, High¬ 
land Golf and Country Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Indiana Democratic Club, Iviwanis Club, Elks of which 
he is past Exalted Ruler, Indianapolis Lodge, No. 56, 
Knights of Pythias of which he is a past Chancellor 
Commander, and in the Masonic fraternity is a member 
of Center Lodge, No. 23, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite and 
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 


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DR. DAVID F. BERRY 


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DAVID F. BERRY, M. D. 

FAAVID F. BERRY, M. D., was born on a farm near Franklin, 

Johnson County, Indiana, April 25, 1874, son of William H. 
and Elizabeth J. (King) Berry. His father was an influential 
citizen of College Corner, Butler County, Ohio, and his mother the 
daughter of early settlers of Boone County, Indiana. 

The subject of this sketch obtained his early education in the 
public schools of Franklin, after which he became a clerk in a 
number of drug stores of Indianapolis, and in which he attained 
an enviable reputation as a skilled and experienced pharmacist. 
For seven years he was thus employed, during which time his 
knowledge of materia medica and therapeutics reached such pro¬ 
portions that he determined to enter the medical profession, in 
which he believed were wider opportunities for effective service 
and personal achievement. 

In 1896, after a year of study of medicine under the guidance 
and direction of Dr. Thomas E. Courtney, of Indianapolis, he 
entered the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, in this 
city, and from this institution was graduated in 1900 with the 
degree of Doctor of Medicine. He had the distinction at the time 
of his graduation of winning the highest class honors in surgery 
and for this was awarded the John M. Gaston Gold Surgery 
Medallion. 

Immediately after the termination of his college work, Dr. 
Berry began the active practice of medicine in Indianapolis, but 
in view of his determination to confine his practice to certain 
definite diseases, shortly made a specialty of the ear, nose and 
throat, in which he has made an outstanding reputation not only 
among his very representative clientage, but also with a large 
following of professional confreres. 

Dr. Berry was among the first of the present-day specialists 
to realize that an age of specialization was inevitable from the 
standpoint of practical and adequate administration of treatment 
of diseases and to him has come a large measure of public confi¬ 
dence and high regard. 

Dr. Berry is a member of the Indianapolis Medical Society, 
Indianapolis ’ Society of Ophthalmology and Oto-laryngology, 
Indiana State Medical Society, American Medical Association, 
American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-laryngology, a 
charter member of the Indianapolis Rotary Club, a charter mem¬ 
ber of the Business Men’s Art Club of Indianapolis, The Nature 
Study Club of Indiana and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 

The marriage of Dr. Berry and Miss Lanetta A. Furgason 
occurred at Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana, on January 19,1898. 
The family residence is at 125 Blue Ridge Road. 


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HON. ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE 


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HON. ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE 


A LBERT J. BEVERIDGE was born October 
6, 1862, on a farm on the border of 
Adams and Highland counties, Ohio. His 
father and brothers were soldiers in the Union 
army. 

Soon after the close of the Civil War the 
family moved to Moultrie County, Illinois, and 
later lived in Sullivan, the county seat. The 
subject of this sketch attended an old-fashioned 
country school until the family went to live in 
Sullivan, where he attended the grade schools 
of that town. 

In 1881 he entered DePauw University 
(then Asbury College), Greencastle, Indiana, 
and graduated from that institution in 1885. 

Broken in health as a result of overwork in 
college, he then went to western Kansas where 
he lived the open life of the plains, earning his 
living by locating settlers on government lands. 

When his health was fully restored lie re¬ 
turned to Indianapolis and began the study of 
law in the office of McDonald & Butler, leading- 
attorneys of that day. He was reading clerk in 
the Legislature of 1886-’87. During the latter 
year he was admitted to the Bar in Indianapolis 
and soon established himself in the practice of 
his profession. 

Immediately after his admission to the Bar 
of the State courts, he was admitted to the 
Federal courts and in due time to the Supreme 
court of the United States. 

While still in college he took part as a Re¬ 
publican stump speaker in the Blaine cam¬ 
paign of 1884; and he continued to speak for 
his party in every campaign thereafter. 

The Republican majority of the Legisla¬ 
ture of 1888-’89 elected him to the United 
States Senate; and upon the expiration of his 
first term in 1905, re-elected him for a second 
term, which ended March 4, 1911. 

Mr. Beveridge was married November 24, 
1887, to Miss Katherine Langsdale of Green¬ 


castle, Indiana, who died July 18, 1900. On 
August 7, 1907, Mr. Beveridge was married to 
Miss Catherine Spencer Eddy, daughter of 
Augustus N. Eddy and Abby Louise Spencer 
Eddy. 

Air. Beveridge is the author of several 
books, the most notable of which is “The Life 
of John Marshall,” known to all Americans as 
“the great Chief Justice.” This work is in 
four volumes. 

Other books by Air. Beveridge are: The 
Russian Advance, 1903; The Young Man and 
the World, 1905; The Bible as Good Reading, 
1906; Americans of Today and Tomorrow, 
1908; Work and Habits, 1*908; The Meaning 
of the Times, 1907; What Is Back of the War, 
1915. 

In 1922', Mr. Beveridge was nominated in 
the primary as Republican candidate for 
United States Senator, and defeated in the 
election, November 7 of the same year. 

The title of honorary LL.D was conferred 
upon Mr. Beveridge by DePauw University in 
1902; University of Pennsylvania, 1920; Lafay¬ 
ette College, 1921; Brown University, 1921. 

Mr. Beveridge is a member of the American 
Bar Association, American Historical Associa¬ 
tion, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 
American Antiquarian Society, Mississippi Val¬ 
ley Historical Association, Virginia Historical 
Society, Indiana Historical Society, Massachus¬ 
etts Historical Society, Pennsylvania Historical 
Society, etc. 

He is also a member of the following clubs: 
Chicago-Chicago Club, Hamilton Club; Boston 
Union Club; Indianapolis-University Club, Co¬ 
lumbia Club, Marion Club, Country Club, 
Woodstock Club, Athletic Club, Academy of 
Music, Indianapolis Literary Club and 
Athenaeum. 

Mr. Beveridge resides at 4164 Washington 
Boulevard, Indianapolis, Indiana. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



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DR. ROBERT I. BLAKEMAN 


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DR. R. I. BLAKEMAN 

D OBERT I. BLAKEMAN, I). D. S., son of R. T. and Mary J. 

^ (Page) Blakeman, was born at Columbia, Kentucky, March 
11,1868. He received bis early education in the public schools in 
the city of' his birth, after which he attended the Columbia Christ¬ 
ian College. Upon the termination of this work Dr. Blakeman 
came to Indianapolis and here attended the Indiana Dental Col¬ 
lege, from which he graduated, in 1899, with the degree of D. D. S. 
After one year in the general practice of dentistry in Indianapolis, 
the subject of this sketch went to Paris, France, and there was 
associated in practice for a period of three years with Dr. E. A. 
Bogue, a man of outstanding prominence in the practice of den¬ 
tistry. While in Paris, Dr. Blakeman was made an honorary mem¬ 
ber of the Society of Reveu Des Societies Humanitaires, Pliilan- 
thropiques, a French society which but infrequently confers mem¬ 
bership to men born without the bounds of the country in which 
it is chartered. Upon leaving France, in 1893, Dr. Blakeman re¬ 
turned to the United States and in New York City engaged in the 
practice of his profession for a period of one year, during which 
time he was again associated with Dr. Bogue, thus providing him 
with an association of nearly five years with a man who was then, 
as now, regarded as one of the leaders in dental work. In 1895, 
Dr. Blakeman returned to Indianapolis and in this city he has 
since devoted his professional time to the general practice of 
dentistry. 

Dr. Blakeman is a member of the Indianapolis Dental Society, 
Indiana State Dental Association, National Dental Association, 
the First District Dental Society of New York, American Dental 
Club of Paris, the Highland Golf and Country Club, Woodstock 
Club and in the Masonic fraternity is affiliated with Capital City 
Lodge, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite and Murat Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine. 

The marriage of Dr. Blakeman to Miss Henrietta Kitchell 
took place at Indianapolis, April 18,1896. There are two children, 
Mrs. J. D. Tlrrailkill, of Chicago, Illinois, nee Julie Rive, and 
Robert Irvine, Jr., who recently graduated from the University 
of Wisconsin and is now in Harvard School of Business Adminis¬ 
tration. Dr. and Mrs. Blakeman reside at 3848 North Pennsyl¬ 
vania Street. 


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A. L. BLOCK 


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A. L. BLOCK 

A L. BLOCK, president of L. Strauss & Company, is so closely 
and intimately identified with the civic and business activi¬ 
ties of Indianapolis—so thoroughly expressive of the finest Hoos- 
ier ideals—that it seems somewhat incongruous that any state 
other than Indiana should claim his nativity. As biographies ex¬ 
press it, however, the subject of this sketch was born in the city of 
Cincinnati, Ohio, September 27, 1861, son of Lazraus and Sarah 
(Moerel) Block. 

Shortly after the death of his father Mr. Block, who was then 
but six weeks of age, was moved by his mother to Rochester, Xew 
York, and in that city his talent and taste for the fine men’s-wear 
business revealed itself and in the wholesale branch of this busi¬ 
ness he engaged until 1892, when he entered the retail men’s- 
wear business at Brooklyn, Xew York, in which he was actively 
engaged until 1897. 

In 1898 Mr. Block came to Indianapolis as a result of his 
long acquaintance with the late Mr. Leopold Strauss, who had 
repeatedly during previous years sought the association of Mr. 
Block in the Strauss business. It was the wish of Mr. Strauss that 
Mr. Block should perpetuate the ideals of the business and widen 
its scope and so, some twenty-five years ago, the business relation¬ 
ship between these two men was cemented upon a bedrock foun¬ 
dation of integrity and honor such as has brought to being one of 
the foremost fine men’s-wear businesses of America. 

In 1910, Mr. Block became president of L. Strauss & Com¬ 
pany, at which time he also acquired the entire interests of Mr. 
Strauss. In addition to this association Mr. Block is also presi¬ 
dent of the Circle Theatre Company and the Monument Realty 
Company. He is a member of the Columbia Club, Marion Club, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, Hoosier Athletic Club, Indianapolis 
Club, Broadmore Country Club, Chamber of Commerce, Xew 
York Bridge Club, Old Colony Club, B. P. O. E. and in the 
Masonic fraternity is a life member of Yalley Lodge Xo. 109, F. 
& A. M. (Rochester, Xew York.) 

The marriage of Mr. Block to Miss Rachel Fishel occurred 
September 19, 1888 at Rochester, Xew York. There is one daugh¬ 
ter, Mrs. Jerome Lyon, nee Miriam. The family home is at 3117 
Xorth Meridian Street. 


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BENJAMIN N. BOGUE 


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MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 


BENJAMIN N. BOGUE 


B enjamin Nathaniel bogue, pres¬ 
ident of the Bogue Institute for Stam¬ 
merers, 1145-1147 North Illinois Street, was 
born in Wabash County, Indiana, son of Ben¬ 
jamin E. and Sarah J. (Heacock) Bogue. His 
early education was obtained in the public 
schools of Lincolnville, Indiana, after which he 
began a college course but was unable to pur¬ 
sue this work except for a short time, due to a 
serious impediment of speech known as 
stammering. 

About this time Mr. Bogue began to fully 
realize that his speech affliction was not only 
consuming all of his energy but seriously han¬ 
dicapping such efforts as he might make to¬ 
wards preparing himself for a successful busi¬ 
ness career and thus it is that the subject of this 
sketch took up the study of stammering and 
eventually established the institute which for 
the past twenty-two years has borne his name. 

The Bogue Institute for Stammerers pro¬ 
vides a course of instruction based entirely 
upon Mr. Bogue’s personal cure of himself. It 
is world known as the Bogue Unit Method 
which, when applied under the direction of 
competent instructors, has brought about the 
permanent cure of hundreds of varied cases of 
stammering on the part of persons of all ages. 
In fact, it is of interest to here note that the 
Bogue Institute for Stammerers has returned 
students to their homes in all parts of the 
world completely cured of the affliction and in 
so doing has gained an international reputa¬ 
tion and standing. 

To the Bogue Institute for Stammerers, Mr. 
Bogue gives his entire attention, personally 
handling the diagnosis of all cases. As a result 
of his many years of extensive study he is able 
to differentiate with fine discrimination the 


varied and complex cases of stammering and 
stuttering that come before him either through 
the Institute in person or in the form of re¬ 
quests for information through the mails. Dur¬ 
ing more than twenty-two years Mr. Bogue has 
come into personal touch with over twenty 
thousand stammerers and has diagnosed over 
seventy-seven thousand cases from data sup¬ 
plied to him on the diagnosis blanks of the In¬ 
stitute, made up in the form of intensive 
questionnaires. 

In connection with the Bogue Institute for 
Stammerers and the work to which it is de¬ 
voted, Mr. Bogue is the author of many books 
upon the subject. “Stammering—Its Cause 
and Cure"’ originally published by Mr. Bogue 
in 1919, but which has now reached its third 
edition, has an international circulation, while 
his periodical known as “The Emancipator,” 
published monthly, is sent to all parts of the 
country to those interested in the cure of this 
affliction. In addition to these publications 
Mr. Bogue is the author of such widely known 
articles as “The Affect of Stammering Upon 
the Nervous System,” “The Influence of 
Stammering Upon the Personality,” “The In¬ 
fluence of Stammering Upon the Intelligence,” 
“Why You Stammer and Stutter,” “Results 
of Stammering,” “The Power of the Bogue 
Unit Method,” and others, while he is at this 
time contemplating the preparation of other 
works dealing with stammering and its 
development. 

Mr. Bogue is a member of the Columbia 
Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the 
Hoosier Athletic Club, the Rotary Club and the 
Chamber of Commerce. The marriage of Mr. 
Bogue to Airs. Corinne Barth occurred at In¬ 
dianapolis, October 18, 1917. There is one son, 
Richard Barth—age fifteen years. The family 
residence is at 1712 North Meridian Street. 


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CHARLES A. BOOKWALTER 


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CHARLES ANDREWS BOOKWALTER 

pHARLES ANDREWS BOOKWALTER, president of the 
Bookwalter-Ball-Greatliouse Company, printers and book¬ 
binders, and for many years actively associated with political and 
civic affairs of Indianapolis, was born on a farm a few miles north 
of Wabash, Indiana, December 7, 1860, son of Josiah and Eliza¬ 
beth (Riley) Bookwalter. The Bookwalters were originally from 
Switzerland, the early American settlers of the name coming from 
that country in 1746. The parents of the subject of this sketch 
were substantial farmers near Wabash, but moved to Fort Wayne, 
Indiana, when he was a child. In that city he attended the public 
schools, and when a boy spent several years in a printing office 
where he learned to set type and all the technic of the printing 
trade. On reaching manhood he became a fireman on the Wabash 
Railroad for a period of two years. From a locomotive engineer 
he entered the office of the Fort Wayne Gazette where, as a pro¬ 
ficient newspaper writer, he developed an active interest in 
politics. 

In 1887, Mr. Bookwalter was appointed clerk of the State 
Printing Bureau at Indianapolis. The four years’ service in this 
office was a stepping stone to his broad business and political ex¬ 
perience. He was afterwards in the real estate business and dur¬ 
ing that time organized the Indiana Society for Savings. He was 
also the organizer of the Gem Garment Company. In 1899 he was 
nominated for Mayor of Indianapolis on the Republican ticket in 
opposition to Hon. Thomas Taggart on the Democratic ticket. In 
this campaign he was not successful but, in 1901, he was again 
nominated for this office and elected in the general election that 
followed for a term of two years. In 1905 he was again nominated 
and for the second time elected, for a term of four years, leaving 
the office January 1, 1910. 

While not at this time holding elective public office, Mr. Book- 
waiter is now a member of the Indianapolis Board of Park Com¬ 
missioners and keenly interested in the public undertakings which 
come before that body. He is a member of the Columbia Club, 
Marion Club, Athenaeum, Highland Golf and Country Club, Mar¬ 
ion Lodge, No. 35, F. & A. M., Raper Commandery, No. 1, Indi¬ 
anapolis ; Rose Croix Ft, Wayne; Scottish Rite, Ft. Wayne; Murat 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine and Indianapolis Lodge, No. 56, 
Knights of Pythias, of which last mentioned organization he was, 
in 1901-2, Grand Chancellor of Indiana. 

The marriage of Mr. Bookwalter to Miss Maud E. Bennett 
took place at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, October 29, 1884. There are 
four children, Mrs. Clarence A. Budd, nee Hazel J., of South 
Bend; Mrs. George Bliss, nee Eleanor, of Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. 
David LI. Jennings, nee Mary Elizabeth, of New Castle; and John 
Hanwav now associated with his father in business. 


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LOUIS J. BORINSTEIN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


LOUIS J. BOKINSTEIN 


L OUIS J. BORIXSTEIN, son of the late Jo¬ 
seph A. Borinstein and Anna (Cohen) 
Borinstein, was born in Indianapolis December 
29, 1881. For many years he has been engaged 
in the scrap metal business and at the present 
time is general manager of A. Borinstein, 
wholesale dealers in iron and steel scrap, met¬ 
als, and iron and steel products, new and us¬ 
able, obsolete and salvageable materials and 
equipment. 

Mr. Borinstein has taken a prominent part 
in everything with which he has been concerned 
since early in life. lie obtained his first 
schooling in Indianapolis and was graduated 
from Public School No. 6 and Emmerich Man¬ 
ual Training High School. He was valedic¬ 
torian of his class at Manual. 

lie began his business life in January, 1899, 
entering the office of A. Borinstein, whosesale 
dealer in scrap material. The business was 
started in 1873 by Joseph A. Borinstein. Con¬ 
scientious effort, business acumen and enter¬ 
prise on the part of Joseph A. Borinstein were 
responsible for the upbuilding of the business, 
which at the time was recognized as one of the 
leading concerns of its kind in the Middle 
West, supplying many foundries and mills with 
all their raw materials. As the factories and 
foundries grew, so did the business, and now 
the A. Borinstein organization is among the 
larger scrap material concerns in the country. 

Louis J. Borinstein, under the business 
training of his father, advanced rapidly in the 
business and now is the general manager. His 
business integrity is quite characteristic of the 
family, but he has not allowed his work to take 
up all his energy, a goodly share of which he 
has devoted to welfare organizations. 

One of the original incorporators of the In¬ 


dianapolis Club, Mr. Borinstein has served for 
two years as president of the club. In 1910 he 
was president of Indianapolis Lodge No. 58, 
Independent Order of B'nai Brith, an altru¬ 
istic organization having a local membership 
of more than five hundred men. In 1916 and 
1917 he served as president of District Grand 
Lodge No. 2, Independent Order of B’nai Brith, 
comprising the states of Indiana, Ohio, Ken¬ 
tucky, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming 
and New Mexico. More than 15,000 men are 
members in District No. 2, whereas more than 
60,000 men are identified with this organiza¬ 
tion in this country. In District No. 2 are lo¬ 
cated several institutions of prominence in 
philanthropic circles. The Jewish Orphans’ 
Home at Cleveland, Ohio, and the National 
Jewish Home for Consumptives in Denver, 
Colorado, are among the more important insti¬ 
tutions. The latter home admits patients of 
any creed, but only those who are unable to 
pay for such treatment. 

Air. Borinstein is a member of the board of 
directors of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congre¬ 
gation and a member of the Board of Gover¬ 
nors of the Indianapolis Jewish Federated 
Charities. He was chairman for the State of 
Indiana of the American Jewish Relief Cam¬ 
paign in 1921 and 1922 for sufferers from the 
war, and succeeded in raising more money per 
capita than any other state and at the lowest 
of administration costs. He also is a member 
of the Masons, the Broadmoor Country Club, 
the Athenaeum, and Marion Club. 

Mr. Borinstein married Miss Eva Oppen- 
heim, June 30, 1908, in Cleveland, Ohio. 
There are four children: Marcus E., Helen E., 

Lucille J., and Robert A. The familv resides 

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at 4137 North Meridian Street. 


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ARTHUR E. BRADSHAW 


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ARTHUR E. BRADSHAW 


A RTHUR E. BRADSHAW, son of Wm. and 
Georgiana (Sampson) Bradshaw, was 
born at Delphi, Carroll County, Indiana, Sep¬ 
tember 19, 1862. 

He attained his education at the common 
schools of the city of his birth, after which he 
became engaged in the watchmaking and jew¬ 
elry business. In this he continued at Delphi 
until 1901, when he came to Indianapolis, 
where he at once began the organization of the 
Indianapolis Mortar and Fuel Company, which 
was incorporated in the same year and of which 
Mr. Bradshaw was the president. 

The company, under the direction of Mr. 
Bradshaw, grew without interruption until 
August, 1922, when it was consolidated with 
the interests of A. B. Meyer & Company into 
what has since been known as the Allied Coal 
and Material Company, 407 Odd Fellow 
Building. 

The Allied Coal and Material Company is 
probably the largest distributor of its kind in 
this section of the country, handling an unusual 
volume of all kinds of building material with 
the exception of lumber and steel. The com¬ 
pany is also regarded as the largest retail coal 
distributor in the State of Indiana, having thir¬ 
teen points of distribution within the city limits 
of Indianapolis. 

In 1905 Mr. Bradshaw organized and be¬ 
came president of the Practical Cement Block 
Company, which has been, since its creation, 
the largest producers of concrete blocks in the 
city. This company was one of the first of its 
kind to be organized in Indiana and of it Mr. 
Bradshaw has been continuously the president. 


For three years (1919-1921 inclusive) Air. Brad¬ 
shaw was president of the National Builders’ 
Supply Association and is at this time a direct¬ 
or of that organization. AVliile holding execu¬ 
tive office of the National Builders’ Supply 
Association, Mr. Bradshaw had an enviable op¬ 
portunity to become nationally acquainted with 
those engaged in his own line of business, and 
as a result of these acquaintances is one of the 
best known men in the country today engaged 
in the sale and distribution of building 
material. 

Air. Bradshaw is at this time president and 
a director of the Cemetery Company, owners 
of Memorial Park Cemetery, located east of 
Indianapolis on the National Road, and is also 
acting president of the Equitable Realty Com¬ 
pany, owners of that property in Indianapolis 
located on the north side of Ohio Street .just 
east of Illinois Street. 

Among the business, social and fraternal 
organizations of the city, Air. Bradshaw is 
prominently identified. He has been a director 
of the Columbia Club for a number of years and 
served as vice-president of that organization 
during 1921. He is, in addition, a member of 
the Highland Golf and Country Club, the In¬ 
dianapolis Athletic Club, the Athenamm, the 
Chamber of Commerce, and the Rotary Club. 
His Alasonic membership is the Ancient Land¬ 
mark Lodge, F. and A. M.; A"ork Rite, Scottish 
Rite and Alurat Temple of the Alvstic Shrine. 

Air. Bradshaw married Aliss Jennie Jackson 
of Delphi, Indiana, September 25, 1885. There 
are two daughters, Afisses Jessie and Alary. 
The famity residence is at 1308 Central Avenue. 


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J. G. BRANNUM 


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JOSEPH Gr. BRANNUM 

JOSEPH Gr. BRANNUM, president of the Brannum-Keene 
J Lumber Company, was born in Wells County, Indiana, Octo¬ 
ber 28, 1873, son of Henry C. and Rebecca (Johnson) Brannum. 
His early education was obtained in the public schools of Mont¬ 
pelier, Indiana, after which he became associated with his father 
in the lumber and hardware business at that city. 

On February 1, 1891, Mr. Brannum went to Elwood, Indiana, 
and there together, with associates, established a retail lumber 
business. On October 1 of that same year, Mr. Brannum went to 
Alexandria, Indiana, and there established the Brannum Lumber 
Company, of which he has continuously been the president. 

Mr. Brannum, on September 1, 1907, came to Indianapolis 
and here, with Mr. Elbert Keene, organized the Brannum-Keene 
Lumber Company of which corporation he also has been con¬ 
tinuously the president and to the management of which he has 
during more recent years, given practically all of his time. 

Mr. Brannum is a member of the Columbia Club, Indianap¬ 
olis Athletic Club, Hoosier Athletic Club, Highland Golf & Coun¬ 
try Club, Kiwanis Club, and in the Masonic fraternity is a mem¬ 
ber of Alexandria Lodge No. 235, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite, 
Knights Templar Consistory, and Murat Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine. In addition to these he is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias and B. P. O. E. No. 13. 

The marriage of Mr. Brannum to Miss Lenorali McLead 
occurred at Alexandria, Indiana, January 18, 1893. Mrs. Bran¬ 
num died December 5, 1918, since which time Mr. Brannum has 
resided at the Lincoln Hotel. 


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ALFRED F. BRENTLINGER 


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ALBERT F. BRENTLINGER 


A LBERT F. BRENTLINGER was born at 
AVestfield, Illinois, November 12, 1865, 
the son of the late Samuel and Sarah Jane 
(Grafton) Brentlinger. He is the sixth son of 
ten children, the others in the order of their 
birth being A. J. Brentlinger, of Terre Haute; 
Mrs. John J. (Mary E.) Reagin, of Terre 
Haute; Mrs. William (Blanche) Healey, of In¬ 
dianapolis; William II. Brentlinger (deceased), 
Charles W. Brentlinger (deceased), Mrs. A. C. 
(Hattie) Hubbard, of Indianapolis; John Ed¬ 
ward Brentlinger (deceased), AValter B. Brent¬ 
linger (deceased), and Frederick B. Brentiing- 
er (deceased). 

The early education of the subject of this 
sketch was obtained in the public schools of 
Terre Haute, Indiana, to which city he removed 
with his parents when but a few years of age. 
Like many other men of prominence in this day, 
Air. Brentlinger began his career in a most 
humble manner. His mother died when he was 
only fourteen years old, almost immediately 
after which he became a newsboy and boot- 
black on the streets of Terre Haute. Beinsr full 
of genuine American ambition, however, he 
shortly abandoned this work and became a 
moulder in the Terre Haute Car Foundry Com¬ 
pany at Terre Haute. 

This work continued until 1903, when he 
went into the real estate business at Terre 
Haute and in which he continued for two years 
or until the time when the “movie” business 
became a reality, and whereupon Air. Brent¬ 
linger became identified with that business in 
which he has been conspicuously identified to 
the present time. 

ATr. Brentlinger, a pioneer of the moving 
picture industry, opened the first moving pic¬ 
ture house at Terre Haute and one of the first 
to be opened in this state—The Theatorium. 
Following this he purchased the Elk Theater at 
Terre Haute and then the Orpheum of that 
city. In each instance a mark of progression 
was recorded, each succeeding play house hav¬ 
ing a capacity of approximately double that of 
the last mentioned. 

In 1913, Air. Brentlinger sold his three 
Terre Haute motion picture houses, left Terre 
Haute and went to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where 
he built the Orpheum Theatre. This he operat¬ 
ed for one year and then sold his interests to 
what is now the Consolidated Realty and The¬ 
atres Corporation, the largest theatres-operat- 
ing company in the middle west. At the time 
of this sale, Air. Brentlinger became vice-presi¬ 
dent, director and general theatres manager of 


the company, with headquarters in Indianapolis 
and in which city he has since resided. 

Air. Brentlinger was one of the first to real¬ 
ize the necessity of lifting the business from 
that of an ordinary pastime to the high level 
that it occupies today. From the first he has 
insisted upon an unusually high calibre of en¬ 
tertainment for the patrons who visit the thea¬ 
tres in which he has been interested. He was 
one of the originators, in this section of the 
country at least, of orchestral and other enter¬ 
tainment in addition to the film. The wisdom 
of his insistence needs no further argument 
than to mention that to the Consolidated Realty 
and Theatres Corporation now operates eight of 
some of the most profitable and popular motion 
picture play houses of the state. 

These theatres include the Auctory and 
Strand at Evansville, the Orpheum at Fort 
Wayne, the Liberty at Terre Ilaute, Strand at 
Kokomo, the Murrette and Aturray at Rich¬ 
mond, and the Capitol at Clinton. In addition 
to these, the company operates the Hotel Sonn- 
tag at Evansville and is now planning to erect 
the Wayne at Fort Wayne, which will be a 
.$1,500,000 theatre and hotel structure. 

Air. Brentlinger is president of the Indiana 
Board of Associated First National Picture 
Corporation, a position which, in addition to 
his other national qualifications and activities, 
has made him decidedly conspicuous and well 
and favorably known in motion picture busi¬ 
ness throughout the country. 

The marriage of Air. Brentlinger to Aliss 
Ilettie J. Ross took place at Terre Haute, In¬ 
diana, July 7, 1885. There are three children, 
Airs. C. W. (Alary) Alason, Byron W. and Lo- 
rin J. Air. C. W. Alason, formerly associated 
with the Western Union Telegraph Company at 
Alarion, Ohio, Terre Haute, Evansville and 
Fort Wayne, Indiana, and later local manager 
of the Orpheum at Fort Wayne, Indiana, is now 
associated with Air. Brentlinger as assistant to 
the general theatres manager. Air. Byron W. 
Brentlinger is identified with his father’s com¬ 
pany as local manager of the new A T ietory 
Theater at Evansville, the largest theatre on 
the Consolidated circuit at this time, and also 
the Strand Theatre of that city. Lorin J. 
Brentlinger is now a student at the University 
of Indiana. 

The offices of the Consolidated Realty and 
Theatres Corporation are at 1242 Consolidated 
Building, formerly the Lemcke Annex, but 
which was purchased in September, 1922, by the 
Consolidated Realty and Theatres Corporation. 
The home of Air. Brentlinger is at 537 Central 
Court, South. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



JOHN N. BROMERT 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN N. BROMERT 


JOHN X. BROMERT, branch manager of the Missouri State 
J Life Insurance Company of St. Louis, Missouri, and for twelve 
years prior to his present association manager for Indiana for the 
Preferred Accident Insurance Company of New York, was born 
at Carroll, Iowa, February 12, 1881, son of John and Barbara 
(Baur) Bromert. 


The early education of the subject of this sketch was obtained 
in the public schools of the county of his birth, after which he at¬ 
tended Highland Park College at Des Moines, Iowa, and the Cedar 
Falls State Normal College at Cedar Falls, Iowa. 

Mr. Bromert taught from 1900 to 1903 in the public schools 
of Carroll County. He was then appointed deputy auditor for 
Carroll County, resigning that office to enter the C. C. C. C. 
Business College at Des Moines, Iowa. He then entered the Cor¬ 
poration Department of the office of the Secretary of State at 
Des Moines. 


In 1907 Mr. Bromert entered the insurance business as dis¬ 
trict manager of the eastern part of Iowa for the Preferred Acci¬ 
dent Insurance Company of New York, remaining in that capacity 
until 1911, when he was transferred to Indianapolis as state man¬ 
ager of Indiana. In 1923 he became branch manager for the 
Missouri State Life Insurance Company of St. Louis, Missouri, 
his present business affiliation. 

Mr. Bromert is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, In¬ 
dianapolis Athletic Club, Columbia Club, Meridian Hills Country 
Club, Elks and the Kiwanis Club, having been Lieutenant Gov¬ 
ernor and District Governor of the Indiana District of Kiwanis 
Clubs in 1921 and 1922, respectively. 

The marriage of Mr. Bromert to Ethel Brannan Whitney 
took place at Indianapolis August 18, 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Brom¬ 
ert reside at 3766 North Pennsylvania Street. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Bretzman 

JOHN D. BROSNAN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN D. BROSNAN 

J OHN D. BROSNAN, president and treasurer of the John D. Brosnan Cloak 
and Suit Company, 27-33 North Pennsylvania Street, was born near the 
Lakes of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, March 1, 1861, the son of Daniel 
and Bridget (O’Connor) Brosnan, the latter being of one of the oldest fam¬ 
ilies of the country of her birth. 

The early education of the subject of this sketch was attained in the schools 
of the country in which he lived, but when fifteen years of age migrated to 
the United States. Upon reaching the shores of this country, Mr. Brosnan 
came directly to Indianapolis and took a position with A. Dickson & Company, 
which was then one of the largest dry goods establishments in this city. In 1899 
he formed a partnership with his brother and opened a dry goods store at 43-45 
South Illinois Street, known as Brosnan Brothers. In 1901, however, Mr. John 
D. Brosnan withdrew from the partnership and opened a specialty store in 
ladies’ ready-to-wear apparel at 26-28 East Washington Street. 

In 1921 Mr. Brosnan acquired a twenty-year lease on the building in which 
his company is now located, representing an investment of over half a million 
dollars. This venture marks the first location of a large specialty store to move 
from Washington Street to Pennsylvania Street, and was due to Mr. Brosnan’s 
definite conviction that Pennsylvania Street is destined to become the high 
class shopping district of the city. In fact, Mr. Brosnan has already enjoyed 
a very substantial increase in his business since locating in the new quarters. 

Since coming to Indianapolis, Mr. Brosnan has witnessed the growth of the 
city from approximately 75,000 inhabitants to the present population of ap¬ 
proximately 320,000 persons. lie has continuously taken an unusually active 
interest in civic affairs. He was a charter member of the old Commercial Club 
and has since served that organization in many official capacities. For six 
years he was a member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce, 
and was a delegate to the national convention of the Chamber of Commerce at 
Atlantic City in 1921, and was chairman of the executive membership com¬ 
mittee in 1922. 

Mr. Brosnan is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Iviwanis 
Club, the Optimist Club, and the Knights of Columbus. 

The marriage of Mr. Brosnan to Miss Mary R. Reynolds occurred June 27, 
1889. There are two sons, D. R. Brosnan and John D. Brosnan, Jr., both of 
whom are associated with their father as officers and directors of the com¬ 
pany, and a daughter, Mrs. II. M. O’Connor, nee Lorretto, who resides at 
Youngstown, Ohio. The family home is at 1475 North Delaware Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS A4EN 


OF AFFAIRS 



ERNEST BROSS 


Photograph by Bretzman 






INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ERNEST BROSS 

E RNEST BROSS, who until his death, January 31, 1923, was for the prev¬ 
ious eighteen years managing editor of the Indianapolis Star and editor¬ 
ial dean of the Shaffer group of newspapers, was horn September 1, 1860, 
at Newago, Michigan, son of Rev. Harmon and Lydia Bross. He came from 
revolutionary stock, his forefathers having taken prominent parts in the 
Revolutionary War. Ilis father was a Lieutenant in the Civil War. 

Mr. Bross, a brilliant and untiring newspaper contributor, was known 
from coast to coast as a brilliant editorial writer and paragrapher and was also 
frequently mentioned for his essays and verse. Ilis work was done with 
enthusiasm and in a manner that evidenced his devotion to the tasks before 
him. Much of his talent for writing is said to have been inherited from his 
mother, a writer well known under the name of “Lilly Lea.” 

The early education of the subject of this sketch was obtained in the 
primary schools of the town of his birth, after which he attended Doane Col¬ 
lege, Crete, Nebraska, from which he was graduated, in 1891, with the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts and by which he was honored, in 1896, with the degree of 
Master of Art. lie worked his way through college by teaching short terms 
of school, and with much amusement used to tell of other days when he sold 
trees for an Omaha, Nebraska, nursery. Immediately upon graduation from 
college he went to Omaha and accepted a position as an accountant. There 
he made the acquaintance of W. J. Cuddy with whom he later was associated 
on the Portland Oregonian, then on the Omaha Bee. Mr. Cuddy discerned 
that Mr. Bross was possessed of newspaper ability and induced him to .join 
the staff of the Omaha Bee. 

He did reportorial work and later editorial work. Mr. Cuddy in the 
meantime emigrated to Portland, Oregon. Returning to Omaha he found Mr. 
Bross had resigned. Asking the reason, he was told by Mr. Bross that he had 
written editorials on all the subjects with which he was familiar and that he 
conscientiously refused to deceive any one by writing upon subjects of which 
he knew little or nothing. 

Soon thereafter Mr Bross joined Mr. Cuddy in Portland as a member of 
the staff of the Oregonian. He remained there seventeen years, graduating 
from star reporter and editorial writer to managing editor, a position which 
he held for eight years, 1897 to 1904, writing editorials side by side with the 
late Harvey AV. Scott of the Greeley, Dana, AVatterson School. 

In the latter year he came to Indianapolis as managing editor of The Star, 
when John C. Shaffer assumed direction of the paper. In the eighteen years 
since, he had spared no time nor effort in the development of the property, 
taking little or no rest until compelled by ill health to relinquish his duties. 

Air. Bross was married to Miss Anne Dickson Parker at Baltimore, Alarv- 
land, on September 12, 1894. To this union was born a daughter, Airs. Harold 
Eckley, of New Rochelle, New York, and a son, Ilarmon P. Bross, of Denver, 
Colorado. 

Air. Bross was a member of the National Municipal League, the American 
Geological Society, the Chamber of Commerce, Columbia Club, Contemporary 
Club, University Club, and the Art Association of Indianapolis. 



INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



ARTHUR V. BROWN 


Photograph hy Bretsman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ARTHUR V. BROWN 


A RTHUR V. BROWN, president of the Union Trust Company of Indian- 
apolis and a leader at the Indianapolis bar for many years prior to his 
connection with the banking business, is a native of Indiana, born at New 
Bethel, March 17, 1863, son of Dr. Samuel M. and Maliala S. (Brady) Brown. 
The family were of South Carolina origin, the parental grandfather, John 
Brown, passing his entire life in that state. The father was born at Abbeville, 
South Carolina, May 23, 1823 becoming a resident of Marion County, Indiana, 
May 23, 1848, first locating at New Bethel, where he earned a high reputation 
in the practice of medicine and which he continued until the time of his death. 
The mother was a daughter of Henry Brady, a pioneer settler of Indiana who 
came from Western Pennsylvania. 


The early education of Arthur V. Brown, who was but three years old when 
his mother died, was obtained in the country schools of New Bethel, after which 
for six years he was a student of Butler University where he graduated in 1885 
Immediately upon the conclusion of this course he pursued the study of law 
under most advantageous circumstances in the office of Harrison, Miller & 
Elam at Indianapolis and in 1888 was admitted to the Indiana bar. As a law¬ 
yer he attained in a few years to a position of dignity and success and, as 
attorney for the poor in the Criminal Court, and later Deputy Prosecuting 
Attorney and, from 1891 to 1895, County Attorney, rendered valuable service 
to the county and state. 

In addition to his professional work, Mr. Brown became engaged in finan¬ 
cial and real estate interests and gave up the active practice of law to devote 
his time to financial matters. His first banking connection was as a director 
in the Indiana National Bank and as the largest stockholder in the Union Trust 
Company, of Indianapolis. In 1915 he became vice-president of the Union 
Trust Company and in 1916, when the late John II. Holliday became chairman 
of the board of directors of that institution, Mr. Brown was elevated to the 
presidency, which position he occupies at this writing. 

In civic and educational affairs Mr. Brown has ever taken an active and 
prominent part. He is at this time a trustee and chairman of the Building Com¬ 
mittee of Butler College to which institution he has given unsparingly of his 
time during recent years; a member of the John II. Holliday Memorial Com¬ 
mittee, a member of the Indianapolis and Indiana State Bar Associations, 
Chamber of Commerce, University Club, Columbia Club, Country Club, Wood- 
stock Club and the Sigma Chi college fraternity. In the Masonic fraternity 
he is identified with Marion Lodge No. 35 F. & A. M., the Scottish Rite and the 
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a trustee of the Meridian Street 
Methodist Episcopal Church and President of the Board of the Methodist Hos¬ 
pital and Deaconess Home of the State of Indiana. 

The marriage of Mr. Brown to Miss Katherine Malott, daughter of the late 
Volney T. Malott and Caroline (Macy) Malott, took place at Indianapolis, 
January 8, 1896. There are three children, Volney Malott, Arthur Ik Jr., and 
Katherine Malott. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



HILTON U. BROWN 


Photograph hy Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HILTON U. BROWN 


H ILTON U. BROWN, general manager of 
the Indianapolis News, was born in In¬ 
dianapolis, February 20, 1859, son of Philip An¬ 
drew and Julia (Troster) Brown. His father, 
a man of scholarly attainments and one of the 
friends of early education in this city, was a 
successful business man of the Hoosier Capital, 
where he located in 1852. 

The early education of Hilton U. Brown was 
obtained in the public schools of the city of Ins 
birth, after which he entered Butler College 
from which he was graduated in 1880 with the 
degree of Bachelor of Arts and by which he has 
since been honored with the degree of Master 
of Arts. After leaving college he spent a year 
at the head of what was known as Oaktown 
Academy, a public school at Oaktown in Knox 
County. In the meantime he had made appli¬ 
cation to the late John II. Holliday for work as 
a reporter on the Indianapolis News. The ap¬ 
pointment came following the assassination of 
President Garfield in the summer of 1881 when 
the News required extra men and Mr. Brown 
was given a humble position on the payroll. 
He began as market reporter and since then 
has served in practically every capacity and 
position in both the news and business depart¬ 
ments. In 1890 he was made City Editor. In 
1898 he was appointed receiver during the lit¬ 
igation growing out of a dissolution of partner¬ 
ship proceedings and as receiver in 1901, sold 
the paper for the litigants for nearly a million 
dollars. The purchasers of the News at once 
made him general manager and as such he has 
continuously served, receiving much of the 
credit for the high position the Indianapolis 
News now enjoys among the metropolitan 
journals of the nation. Mr. Brown also nego¬ 
tiated the purchase of the Indianapolis Press 
and the Indianapolis Sentinel for the owners 
of the News. He is a member of the Associated 
Press for the Indianapolis News. 

In addition to newspaper work, Mr. Brown 
is prominently identified with work relating to 
the civic and educational development of In¬ 
dianapolis. lie has since 1888 been a member 


of and since 1908 president of the Board of Di¬ 
rectors ot Butler College and has from the first 
been directly interested in the relocation plans 
now relating to that institution. He was for 
several years president of the Town and School 
Boards of Irvington when it was a separate cor¬ 
poration. lie was in 1917 and 1918 chairman 
of the Sixth Division Selective Service Board 
and since 1903 has been a director of the Amer¬ 
ican Newspaper Publishing Association. In 
3 915 he was elected a director of the Christian 
(Disciples) Board of Publication and in 1923 
trustee of the Christian Foundation. He is a 
member of the University Club, Columbia Club, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, Highland Golf and 
Country Club, Indiana Historical Society, In¬ 
dianapolis Literary Club and the Phi Delta 
Theta college fraternity, of which he was 
national president from 1882 to 1886. He is 
also a member of Irvington Lodge No. 666 F. & 
A. M. and the Christian Church. 

Following the World War Mr. Brown at¬ 
tended the Peace Conference at Paris and Ver¬ 
sailles as correspondent and wrote a series of 
letters on battlefields and industrial conditions 
in Europe. He has also written a brochure en¬ 
titled “Fifty-four Forty or Fight” and has 
edited letters and verses of his son, who was 
killed in action, entitled “Hilton U. Brown, 
Jr., One of Three Brothers in Artillery.” 

The marriage of Mr. Brown to Miss Jennie 
Hannah, daughter of Captain Archibald A. 
Hannah of Paris, Illinois, occurred at that 
place October 31, 1883. Ten children have 
been born to this marriage, Mark II., Philip, 
now deceased, Mrs. John W. Atherton, 
(Louise), Mrs. George O. Stewart, (Mary), 
Hilton U., Jr., who was killed in action in the 
Argonne Forest while serving in the Seventh 
Field Artillery, First Division, Jean, Archi¬ 
bald A., Paul, Jessie and Julia. The three sons, 
Hilton U., Jr., Archibald A. and Paul, entered 
the army when war was declared against Ger¬ 
many and all three became Lieutenants in 
Artillery. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



RAYMOND D. BROWN 


Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


RAYMOND D. BROWN 

D AYMOXD I). BROWN, president of the Postal Station 
^ Building Company, owners and lessors of the parcel post 
station of the post office department at Indianapolis, was horn at 
Indianapolis, June 29, 1886, son of George W. and Mary J. 
(Coble) Brown. His early education was obtained in the public 
schools of the city of his birth, after which he attended Wabash 
College and from which he graduated in 1908 with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts and also the honorary degree of Phi Beta Kappa. 

Upon the completion of his college course, Mr. Brown en¬ 
gaged in the retail shoe business from 1908 to 1917. In the latter 
year, however, he sold his interests in the Brown Shoe Store Com¬ 
pany and entered the retail automobile business. In 1921, R. D. 
Brown & Company became representatives for C. H. Wills & Com¬ 
pany, manufacturers of the Wills Sainte Claire motor car. This 
representation covered the entire state of Indiana and continued 
until March, 1923, when Mr. Brown retired from the automobile 
business to devote his attention to the company of which he is now 
the president and which he originally promoted. 

In addition to this association, however, Mr. Brown has since 
promoted and become the active head of a number of similar pro¬ 
jects in other large cities of the country, owning and operating 
buildings which are leased to the government for post office pur¬ 
poses. 

Mr. Brown has for many years been actively identified with 
community affairs, being one of the early members of the Indi¬ 
anapolis Athletic Club, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, 
the Board of Trade, the Columbia Club, the Rotary Club, the High¬ 
land Golf and Country Club, the Old Colony Club and the Indi¬ 
anapolis Automobile Trade Association. In the Masonic frater¬ 
nity he is a member of Pentalpha Lodge, No. 564, F. & A. M., Scot¬ 
tish Rite, York Rite and the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 
He is also a member of the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity. 

The marriage of Mr. Brown to Miss Clara Hyatt, daughter of 
Wilson J. and Lennie A. Hyatt, of Columbus, Indiana, occurred at 
Indianapolis, September 16, 1908. There are three children, R. 
D., Jr., Bettv and Jean. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



ROBERT H. BRYSON 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 


ROBERT HAMILTON BRYSON 


R obert Hamilton bryson, postmaster 

of Indianapolis, was born in Warren 
County, Ohio, September 1, 1864, son of Alonzo 
B. and Valeria N. (Wright) Bryson. lie re¬ 
ceived his elementary education at Cincinnati, 
Ohio, but upon his removal with his parents in 
1878 to Davenport, Iowa, entered tlie high 
school of that city, from which he graduated 
in 1881. 

Mr. Bryson’s family is one of the oldest in 
Pennsylvania. The grandfather followed the 
vocation of steamship captain, commanding 
the ship “Bostonia,” navigating between Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio, and Pomeroy, Ohio. In his foot¬ 
steps followed his son xVlonzo, the father of the 
subject of this sketch, who for a number of 
years, until he became agent of the St. Louis 
& St. Paul Packet Company at Davenport, 
Iowa, was steamship captain on the Mississippi 
River. 

In view of the fact that both his father and 
grandfather had previously been steamship 
captains and of his natural familiarity with 
the steamship business, Robert IT. Bryson was, 
in 1883, appointed agent for the St. Louis & 
St. Paul Packet Company at Rock Island, Illi¬ 
nois, in which position he served until the end 
of 1885. In 1886 he accepted a position with 
the Fleischman Company as their agent at 
Galveston, Texas. Early in 1887 he was trans¬ 
ferred as state agent of the company to Dallas, 
Texas, and in September of the same years was 
promoted to state agent of Indiana with head¬ 
quarters at Indianapolis. 

This marks the arrival of Mr. Bryson in this 
city and as state agent for the Fleischmann 
Company, he remained until 1908 when he was 
for the first time appointed postmaster of In¬ 
dianapolis, serving as such until 1913. During 
the term of Charles A. Bookwalter, as mayor of 
Indianapolis, however, he also served—1901-3 
inclusive—as a member of the Board of Public 
Safety. 

Upon the conclusion of Mr. Bryson’s first 
term of office as postmaster of this city, he 
transferred his activities to the Merchants’ 
Laundry Association, of which he was pres¬ 


ident until January 1, 1905, when he became 
chief deputy sheriff of Marion County, a po¬ 
sition tendered to him by Sheriff George V. 
Coffin. In 1918 Mr. Bryson was appointed 
City Comptroller of Indianapolis and in this 
position he remained until January 1, 1922, 
when he was again appointed postmaster of 
this city. 

Mr. Bryson has been an active and popular 
worker in Republican political circles almost 
from the first day of his arrival in the Hoosier 
Capital. He has been a member of the execu¬ 
tive committee of nearly all city and county 
Republican organizations and as a chief execu¬ 
tive has always been appreciated by those com¬ 
ing under his direction. 

Since taking charge of the Indianapolis 
postoffice he has clearly and forcibly demon¬ 
strated the value of his business training and 
has continuously maintained his place of esteem 
among the employees of the postal department. 
In this connection it is of interest to recall the 
banquet tendered to him by Branch No. 39, 
shortly after his first induction to office in 
1908. Upon that occasion not only was there 
a full attendance of letter carriers, but three of 
the national officers of the Letter Carriers’ 
Union (including the president) were present 
to heartily toast and give him their support. 

Mr. Bryson is first vice-president of the 
National Association of Presidential Postmast¬ 
ers, a member of the Board of Trade, Chamber 
of Commerce, Rotary Club, Columbia Club, and 
the Marion Club, of which he was president in 
1898. He is a Mason—member of Oriental 
Lodge No. 500—, a member of the Scottish Rite 
and a Shriner. He is also a member of the 
Knights of Pythias and Modern 'Woodmen. 
From 1906 to 1911 he was five times success¬ 
ively elected president of the American Bowl¬ 
ing Congress, of which he is a life member. 

The marriage of Mr. Bryson to Miss Mary 
Munro occurred at Davenport, Iowa, Septem¬ 
ber 24, 1890. There is one son, Robert TI. Bry¬ 
son, Jr., now a student at the University of 
Wisconsin. The family resides at 2431 North 
Meridian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



CHARLES J. BUCHANAN 


Photograph by Dexlieimer 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CHARLES J. BUCHANAN 

C HARLES J. BUCHANAN, tlie subject of this sketch, was born August 
31, 1856, on a farm on the National Road. He is of Scotch-Irish lineage, 
and a paternal ancestor was Governor of Ulster. Later his ancestors in Scot¬ 
land were the Lairds of Buchanan, and later still among the first families of 
Virginia. His father, John Buchanan, was born in the village of Indianapolis 
in 1829. His mother, Jane C. Fnrgason, was born in the Furgason Tavern on 
the National Road, six miles east of Indianapolis in 1835. Charles attended 
school at old No. 6 School House in Warren Township and at Cumberland. 
He was encouraged by AV. A. Bell, then Editor of Indiana School Journal, to 
enter the profession of teaching. Accordingly he attended Valparaiso Nor¬ 
mal School and taught in Warren and Center Townships, and one year in 
Alma, Wisconsin, living with his nncle, Dr. Newton McVey and his wife who 
was Nannie Fnrgason. ITis closing was as principal at North Indianapolis 
and Brightwood and as Township Principal of Center Township. On Sep¬ 
tember 3, 1884, Mr. Buchanan was married to Anna P. Flanner. They have 
two sons, Albert F. and Paul II. 

In 1887, he entered the undertaking business with Airs. Buchanan’s 
brother, Frank AV. Flanner, under the firm name of Flanner and Buchanan. 
The business was incorporated in 1909, taking in Frank B. Flanner and Paul 
II. Buchanan. Upon the death of Air. Frank W. Flanner in 1912, Air. Charles 
J. Buchanan became president of the company with Frank B. Flanner as vice- 
president and general manager, and Paul IT. Buchanan as secretary-treasurer. 
In 1900, they built their first crematory and installed their second one in their 
new building in 1913. Air. Buchanan was elected president of The Cremation 
Association of America at the annual convention in Pittsburgh in October, 
1922. 

Air. Buchanan is active in Christian work, is a deacon of the First Con¬ 
gregational Church, a corporate member of the American Board of Com¬ 
missioners of Foreign Alissions, a director of the local board of the Y. AI. C. A 
for thirty-five years and a member of the committee of the Indianapolis Fed¬ 
eration of Churches from its beginning. He is a member of Oriental Lodge 
No. 500 of Alasons, of Raper Commandery and the Shrine. As an Odd Fellow 
he is Past Grand of Philoxenia Lodge No. 44, and of the Patriarchs ATillitant. 
He is a charter member of the Chamber of Commerce and a newly elected 
member of the Century Club. He is chairman of committee on Pilgrimages of 
The Society of Indiana Pioneers and song leader of The Nature Study Club of 
Indiana. 

In politics Air. Buchanan is a Republican. He was a member of the 
Indiana House of Representatives in 1919 and of the Senate in 1921 and 
1923. He is the owner of a farm in Bartholomew County where he raises 
Saddle and Percheron horses, Poland China hogs, Shropshire sheep and 
Shorthorn cattle. He is vice-president for Indiana of The American Saddle 
Horse Breeders Association and of The Indianapolis Saddle Club. His vaca¬ 
tions are spent at his farm or at his beautiful Summer home on Tippecanoe 
Lake. He is a familiar figure on the Bridle Paths of Riverside Park and the 
State Fair Grounds. The winters are usually spent in Florida but he is a 
real Iloosier and is always glad to get back to Old Indiana. 


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ROBERT N. BUCHANAN 


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ROBERT N. BUCHANAN 

R OBERT N. BUCHANAN, proprietor of the National Manufacturing & 
Importing Company, 315 Occidental Building, was born in Lawrence 
County, Illinois, November 28, 1870, son of John M. and Rebecca (Irwin) 
Buchanan. The former is one of the oldest families of the United States, being 
a direct descendant of William Buchanan, who, in 1750, together with his two 
brothers, John and James, came to this country on the ship ‘Lockowav’ from 
Scotland, where their ancestry dates back to the tenth century. The late 
Hon. James B. Buchanan, former president of the United States, was also a 
direct descendant of this same branch of the Buchanan family. John M. 
Buchanan, father of the subject of this sketch, who was born near Bridge¬ 
port, Illinois on April 29, 1841, fought for two years as a soldier in the civil 
war during which he was severely wounded. 

The early education of Robert N. Buchanan, of this review, was obtained 
in the common schools of Illinois, which was later supplemented by a course 
in a business college at Quincy, Illinois. At the age of twenty-one years lie 
became connected with the wholesale grocery house of E. Bierhaus & Sons at 
Vincennes, Indiana, and a year later started out as a traveling salesman for 
that firm. In this work he continued until 1903 when he came to Indianapolis 
and here established in business for himself under the name of the National 
Manufacturing & Importing Company. 

While the business was originally classified as that of wholesale chinaware, 
it was unique, in that it was exclusively devoted to hand-decorated fancy 
chinaware, imported from Europe but decorated in the establishment of Mr. 
Buchanan. 

The business under his direction continued to prosper until it became 
recognized as one of the largest of its kind in the United States. In 1914, 
however, upon the outbreak of the World War, the importation of china 
came to an end and it was then that Mr. Buchanan turned his entire attention 
to French Ivory, a composition of which the major element is celluloid and 
from which is made the most exquisite toilet articles. 

This particular line of manufacturing comprised but a small portion of 
the business prior to the European outbreak, but since 1914, the entire activ¬ 
ities of the business have been centered upon both plain and decorated French 
Ivory. The decoration is executed wholly in the plant of the National Manu¬ 
facturing & Importing Company. The business is entirely wholesale and con¬ 
fined to sales to leading retail jewelers in all parts of the country. 

The nature of Mr. Buchanan’s business has continuously necessitated 
much travel and this has consequently enabled him to meet and study many 
phases of human nature and personal character, a very decided asset to any 
business man. He is partial to all kinds of athletic sports and regularly 
indulges in physical exercise. 

Mr. Buchanan is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of this city 
and is a Republican in politics. He is also a member of the Columbia Club 
and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 

The marriage of Mr. Buchanan to Miss Elsie E. Emerson occurred May 
12, 1896. There is one daughter, Mrs. Richard Fairbanks. The family resi¬ 
dence is 4167 Washington Boulevard. 


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CHARLES L. BUSCHMANN 


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CHARLES L. BUSCHMANN 

HARLES L. BUSCHMANN, son of William and Caroline 
^ Bnsclnnann, was born in Indianapolis, September 5, 1867. 
He received his early education in the public schools of this city, 
attending high school here before going to Columbus, Ohio, where 
he spent one year in college. Following a year in an Indianapolis 
business college, Mr. Busclnnann, in 1887, began working for 
Lewis Meier & Company, then a small tailor shop on the north side 
of the city. Mr. Busclnnann is now president of this concern, 
which has grown to be one of the largest of its kind in the Middle 
States. With him are associated August IV., Harry C. and George 
II. Busclnnann. 

Entering the Meier factory when twenty years of age, Mr. 
Busclnnann familiarized himself with all the detail work of the 
plant, and in the course of a few years became successively super¬ 
intendent, general manager and president. The firm has a coast- 
to-coast market, which, however, is more or less concentrated in 
the Middle States. It operates under a trade mark “ Auto Brand” 
and deals exclusively in flannel and work shirts, triple-stitch over¬ 
alls, work pants and corduroys. During the war the firm made 
more than 100,000 olive drab type army shirts for the soldiers. 

Mr. Busclnnann is a founder member of the Union Manufac¬ 
turers’ Association of America, founded in 1901, and also is a 
director and member of the executive board, which positions he 
has held since the beginning of this association. 

Always active in civic affairs, Mr. Busclnnann is one of the 
founder members and a director of the new Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, a member of the Columbia Club, the Chamber of Commerce, 
Rotary Club, and is affiliated with the Shrine and Scottish Rite 
branches of Masonry. 

Mr. Busclnnann married Miss Grace C. Hooker, of Indianap¬ 
olis, and there are two sons, Severin and Charles E. Severin is a 
junior partner in the law firm of Jones, Hammond & Jones of 
Indianapolis. Charles E. is attending school in Indianapolis at 
the present time. 

The Busclnnann residence is at 1327 Central Avenue. The 
business address of Mr. Busclnnann is 1002 Central Avenue, where 
the factory and offices of Lewis Meier & Company are located. 


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FRANK A. BUTLER 


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FRANK A. BUTLER 


"pRANK A. BUTLER, secretary and treasurer of tlie C. B. 
A Cones & Son Manufacturing Company, 18-20 North Senate 
Avenue, was born at Morgantown, Indiana, March 30, 1876, son of 
Hugh R. and Barbara E. Butler. His early education was received 


in the public schools of Morgantown and later at Washington, D. 
C., where his parents moved when he was a boy, his father being 


m government service. 

Mr. Butler entered the service of the Cleveland, Cincinnati. 
Chicago & St. Louis Railroad on March 5, 1891, first as station 
agent and later as a special agent. He resigned his position with 
the Big Four Railroad in April, 1900, to become a teller at the 
Merchants National Bank in Indianapolis. With this institution 
he remained until 1909, when he was elected treasurer of the C. 


B. Cones & Son Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of over¬ 
alls and shirts. Later lie was elected secretary and treasurer of 
the company. 

When, in 1909, Mr. Butler became associated with the C. B. 
Cones & Son company, there were but 250 persons employed by 
the firm, while at this time the number of employes reach the five- 
hundred mark. The company’s product is distributed to all parts 
of the United States and Canada through jobbers, the concern 
being one of the few manufacturers of overalls and shirts which 
places its product in large volume through jobbers rather than 
direct to the retailer. 

During the World War the company turned out large quan¬ 
tities of wearing apparel for the United States Army for use both 
in the camps of this country and for soldiers in line of duty in 
France. The firm is a member of the National Association of 
Manufacturers, the Garment Manufacturers’ Association, and the 
International Garment Manufacturers’ Association. 

Mr. Butler has been continuously an active Republican, al¬ 
though he has never sought nor held public office. During 1922, 
however, he was president of the Columbia Club of this city, his 
election to that office following a number of years of faithful ser¬ 
vice to that organization in other official capacities. In 1921 and 
1922 he was president of the Indianapolis Traffic Club, and in 
this connection it is of interest to here note that a distinctive honor 
was conferred upon him by the members of the Traffic Club in 
electing him to the presidency for a second term, in view of the 
custom to elect a president for a period of one year only. 

The marriage of Mr. Butler to Aliss Laura J. Gipson at Plain- 
field, Indiana, occurred May 12, 1897. There are three children: 
Mrs. William C. Byers, nee Miss Bernice Butler; Maurice G. 
Butler and Miss Barbara Jane Butler. The family home is at 20 
North Dearborn Street. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



ARTHUR BUTTLER 


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ARTHUR BUTTLER 

A RTIIt R BUTTLER, president of tlie Marietta Alanufacturing 

Company, was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 7, 
1886, son of AVilliam and Mary (Russner) Bottler. The father 
was for many years, until his death, February 14, 1916, promin¬ 
ently identified with the glass manufacturing industry in this state 
and city, having established the Marietta Manufacturing Corn- 
pan}", of which the subject of this sketch is now president. 

The early education of Air. Arthur Buttler was obtained at 
Redkey, Indiana, since the completion of which he has been con¬ 
tinuously identified with the glass-making business. During his 
younger years he worked through all the different departments of 
the A1 arietta Manufacturing Company and, as a result, was well 
qualified to assume the responsibility devolving upon him at the 
time of his father’s death. 

The Marietta Manufacturing Company, which was originally 
founded at Redkey in the heart of the natural gas fields of Eastern 
Indiana, and which was removed to Indianapolis in 1903, produces 
large quantities of Sani Onyx, used for table tops and counter 
tops, and has a wide outlet throughout the United States. 

Air. Buttler is a member of the Scottish Rite branch of the 
Alasonic fraternity and in politics is a Republican. He is a mem¬ 
ber of the Highland Golf and Country Club, and the Indianapolis 
Athletic Club. 

The marriage of Air. Buttler to Aliss Essie H. Greenwood 
took place June 9. 1909. There is one son, John David. The fam¬ 
ily residence is at 803 East Alaple Road. 


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E. HOWARD CADLE 


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E. HOWARD CABLE 

17 HOW AIM) CABLE, founder of the Cadle Tabernacle and 

president of the American Shoe Rebuilders’ Company, was 
born on August 25, 1884, at Fredricksburg, Indiana, son of Thom¬ 
as J. and Loretta Cadle. 

Mr. Cadle built the Tabernacle at New Jersey and Ohio 
Streets in 1921 in memory of his mother. It is the largest taber¬ 
nacle in the world, having a seating capacity of 10,000 persons. 
Fashioned after the famous Alamo Mission at San Antonio, Texas, 
the structure was completed at a cost of $315,000. It was dedi¬ 
cated on October 9, 1921, by Gypsy Smith, noted evangelist. 

The Tabernacle choir, of which Mr. Cadle is president, is the 
largest permanently organized choir in the world. It is composed 
of 1,500 persons and is interdenominational. In addition to the 
religious services the Tabernacle is used for public meetings, con¬ 
ventions, pageants and civic activities. 

Mr. Cadle, who was a traveling man for ten years, originated 
the “while you wait shoe rebuilding business,” and now the 
American Shoe Rebuilding Company, of which he is president, 
has a chain of stores in ten cities in the Middle West. His stores 
were among the first where the rebuilders were viewed by the 
person having rebuilding done and immediately the business be¬ 
came an unusual success. Mr. Cadle visualized to the public the 
rebuilding of shoes and his method attracted so much attention 
that the plan was widely copied. 

Mr. Cadle is a member of the First United Brethren Church. 
He is also a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club and the 
Columbia Club. He was a state game commissioner during the 
governorship of the late Hon. J. Frank Hanly. 

On December 25. 1904, Mr. Cadle married Miss Ola M. Collier 
at Fredricksburg, Indiana. They have two children, Buford M. 
and Helen L. The family home is at 830 East Maple Road. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



HENRY F. CAMPBELL 


Photograph by Dexlieimer 




INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HENRY F. CAMPBELL 


S OME years ago an article appeared in one 
of onr nationally known magazines, en¬ 
titled “The Ninety Per Cent Man.” It w T as 
written by Dr. James D. Walsh, a learned phy¬ 
sician, and author of a widely known work, 
“The Thirteenth, the Greatest of Centuries.” 
The magazine article dealt with a college stu¬ 
dent and his preparation for after life. 

An impression exists, the doctor averred, 
that the ninety per cent man in a university is 
one who has a passion for books to the exclu¬ 
sion of all else; that this man must necessarily 
receive the very highest grades in all his 
classes; that he must be little short of a genius 
in all fields of intellectual endeavor. This im 
pression, according to the doctor, is quite false. 
His conception of the ninety per cent man is 
the student who takes an active part in all 
righteous things pertaining to university life; 
who manifests an equal interest in athletics 
and books; who is a boy among boys, a fellow 
among fellows, and who will inevitably be a 
man among men. Here is the true ninety per 
cent man. 

Indianapolis, like every progressive city, 
has its ninety per cent men, and Henry F. 
Campbell, treasurer of the II. C. S. Company, 
manufacturers of II. C. S. motor cars, stands 
out prominently in this group. He is a sterling 
representative of the best type of the American 
business man today; virile, strong, aggressive 
and successful. 

Mr. Campbell was born in Williamsport, 
Pennsylvania, February 26, 1882, a son of 
Lillian E. and Eben B. Campbell. Ilis early 
education was obtained in the public schools of 
the Keystone state. Later he attended Lehigh 
University, from which school he was grad¬ 
uated in 3904 with the degree of civil engineer. 
Four years after leaving his Alma Mater, he 
came to Indianapolis to represent his father’s 
and his own interests in the Overland Automo¬ 
bile Company and the Marion Motor Car Com¬ 
pany. Two years later the Campbell interests 
in these corporations were withdrawn. 

In 1909, Mr. Campbell, with Harry C. 
Stutz, organized the Stutz Auto Parts Com¬ 


pany, to which both men gave their entire time. 
Mr. Campbell gave up an active interest in the 
Marion and Overland companies to carry on 
this new project. In 1913, he was made presi¬ 
dent of the Ideal Motor Car Company, organ¬ 
ized to market the Stutz car. Two years later 
the Stutz Motor Car Company was founded, 
and this concern took in the Stutz Auto Parts 
Company and the Ideal Motor Car Company. 
Mr. Stutz was made president of the new firm; 
Mr. Campbell, secretary-treasurer. These two 
men sold a controlling interest in the company 
to New York bankers, and, shortly after, Mr. 
Campbell withdrew. Mr. Stutz remained as 
head of the organization until July, 3919. 
Four months later he again became associated 
with Mr. Campbell in the automobile industry, 
when the two men formed the H. C. S. 
Company. 

Because he adheres strictly to the axiom, 
“all work and no play makes Jack a dull 
boy”; because he is an enthusiastic golfer; 
because lie devotes a large amount of his time 
to Indianapolis civic and charitable enter¬ 
prises ; because financial success has never led 
him into idleness, and because his very pres¬ 
ence in any community is an invaluable asset, 
Mr. Campbell is a ninety per cent man. 

He married Madeline Downtain in 1907. 
There are two children, Madeline and Dorothy. 
The family lives at 3261 Pennsylvania Street. 

Mr. Campbell is most active in club life in 
Indianapolis. He is president of the Indianap¬ 
olis Athletic Club, and has been one of the de¬ 
termining factors in bringing about this seem¬ 
ingly impossible project, which promises to be 
a great thing for Indianapolis and Indiana 
business men. lie is also a member of the Co¬ 
lumbia Club, the Highland Golf and Country 
Club, the Woodstock Country Club, and is af¬ 
filiated with the Thirty-second degree Scottish 
Rite Masonry and Murat Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine. As a member and national treasurer of 
the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, he has not been 
unmindful of the needs of that fraternity, and 
has responded generously in aiding his school 
chapter. 


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THOMAS FRANCIS CARSON 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


THOMAS FRANCIS CARSON 


W IIEX Thomas Francis Carson, better 
known as Frank, was a bookkeeper, he 
discovered he was on the wrong side of the 
ledger of life, so he paid twenty-five dollars 
for an old desk and typewriter, and then 
parked his purchase in the offices of an estab¬ 
lished real estate firm and went to work for 
himself. That was back in 1907, the year of 
the most recent financial crisis, but today this 
same Mr. Carson is president of the Thomas 
F. Carson Company—Real Estate and Insur¬ 
ance. 

Thomas Francis Carson was born July 22. 
1875, the son of Lafayette S. and Laura J. 
Carson, on a Shelby County farm. He came to 
Indianapolis when thirteen years of age, rode 
into town on a load of furniture, and his first 
job was with the Indianapolis Sun, carrying 
papers for seventy-five cents a week. His 
early schooling was in the country school house 
near the farm, and later he attended tlie public 
high school in Indianapolis, being graduated 
from Manual Training High School in 1896. 

Mr. Carson worked his way through school 
by carrying papers, and by the time he had 
completed school owned nine paper routes, had 
a like number of youngsters working for him, 
and earned twenty-five dollars a week in this 
manner. He sold his newspaper routes for 
$200.00 and went to work for five dollars a 
week as a shoe clerk in the hope of eventually 
becoming a traveling salesman. Feeling that 
this was in nowise a calling suited to him, Mr. 
Carson gave up his position, bought more paper 
routes, and made up his mind that he would get 
into business college. 

Having no great amount of money to spend 
for his education, Mr. Carson arranged to at¬ 
tend business college by working after hours 
at the school. He soon became proficient as a 
bookkeeper, and his first position in this capac¬ 
ity was with the Capitol Lumber Company, 
where he remained for one year. lie was with 
Bertermann Brothers, florists, for seven years, 
and then went with the Indianapolis Coal Com¬ 


pany. After two years with that company he 
decided to change his career. He came to the 
conclusion that he was not a producer but 
rather a historian for the business other men 
were doing. 

Starting life over again, Mr. Carson went 
into the offices of Feiber & Reilly and sold real 
estate on a commission basis. In his first year 
he was fairly successful, but this was in 1907, 
and money was tied up that year. The man 
was not discouraged in the least; he had made 
his own way before and knew that he could do 
it again. Bis second year was more successful, 
and, after being with the firm three years, 
opened an office of his own and has maintained 
it ever since. 

Air. Carson’s success as a real estate man 
is due perhaps more than anything else to the 
fact that he has always been ready to work. 
In making important transactions he has had 
to deal with big men, and his keen appreciation 
of the worth of things has come to him quite 
naturally. He is a firm advocate of the school¬ 
days axiom, “Never put off till tomorrow that 
which may be done today.” On this principle 
Mr. Carson has been able to close some of his 
biggest deals. 

But it must not lie presumed that business 
is the only thing in the man’s life. Mr. Carson 
plays golf and enjoys a game of bridge and is 
in sympathy with athletics in general. He is 
affiliated with all branches of Masonry, is a 
member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Iloosier Athletic Club, Riverside Golf Club, 
Chamber of Commerce, Marion Club, and the 
Indianapolis Real Estate Board. He was pres¬ 
ident of the local Real Estate Board in 1920, 
during which session the board doubled its 
membership. 

Mr. Carson married Miss Daisy E. Alley in 
Indianapolis, December 12, 1899, and has one 
daughter, Helen Frances. The family now 
lives at 3912 Washington Boulevard, a new 
home recently built by Mr. Carson. ITis busi¬ 
ness is at 910 IIume-Mansur Building. 


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HON. SOLON J. CARTER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. SOLON J. CARTER 

H ON. SOLON J. CARTER, member of the firm of Matson, Carter, Ross & 
McCord, attorneys, was born at Bloomingdale, Indiana, September 1, 
.1888, son of Dan G. and Cora (Ferguson) Carter. Ilis early education was 
obtained in the public schools of Parke County and at the preparatory school 
of DePauw University, after which he attended Miami University, at Oxford. 
Ohio, from which he graduated, in 1909, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts 
and by which he was honored, in 1919, with the degree of Doctor of Laws. 

Upon the completion of this training Air. Carter entered the law office of 
Judge Ared F. White at Rockville, Indiana, with whom he remained for a 
period of one year before coming to Indianapolis as a law student in the 
offices of John G. and D. P. Williams, with whom he remained for a period of 
three years. In 1915 Mr. Carter formed a partnership with Mr. Harold Taylor 
and Air. Burrell Wright, under the firm name of Taylor, Carter & Wright and 
in this association remained until the spring of 1917, when he enlisted in 
Battery E. First Indiana Field Artillery, being elected a captain. On August 
5, 1915, the First Indiana Field Artillery was inducted into Federal service 
and became the 150th Field Artillery, 42nd (Rainbow) Division. On that same 
day Mr. Carter was commissioned a major and placed in command of the 
Second Battalion. 

From August 5, to September 7, 1917, the division was stationed at Ft. 
Benjamin Harrison, after which, until October 17, it was stationed at Camp 
Mills, Long Island. On the day last mentioned the division entrained for 
France and in the war zone served with valor and distinction until the latter 
part of August, 1918. In April, 1918, Mr. Carter was commissioned a lieuten¬ 
ant colonel and in July of that same year was commissioned a full colonel and 
ordered back to the United States to command the 42nd Field Artillery Regi¬ 
ment of the 14th Division at Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Michigan. While 
overseas Mr. Carter was decorated with the Croix de Guerre, Avec Palm in 
connection with his participation in the battle of Champagne (July 14, 15, 16, 
1918). 

Upon the signing of the Armistice and his discharge from army service in 
March, 1919, Mr. Carter returned to Indianapolis and here became associated 
in the partnership of Fesler, Elam, Young & Carter which continued until 
August, 1919, when he was appointed judge of the Marion County Superior 
Court, Room Three, by Governor James P. Goodrich, to serve the unexpired 
term of the late Ernest R. Keith until December 31, 1922. In September, 1922. 
however, Judge Carter resigned from the Superior Court Bench to become a 
member of the firm with which he is now identified. 

Judge Carter is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State and American 
Bar Associations, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Columbia Club, Marion Club, 
Players Club, of which he was president in 1922, and the American Legion. 
In the Masonic fraternity he is a member of Calvin AV. Prather Lodge, No. 717, 
F. & A. M. 

The marriage of Judge Carter to Miss Augusta Mitch took place at Rose- 
dale, Parke County, Indiana, November 27, 1912. There are three children 
John, Eleanor and Jane. 


INDIANAPOLIS 


OF AFFAIRS 


MEN 



Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 

EMERSON W. CHAILLE 


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EMERSON W. CHAILLE 


E MERSON M . CHAILLE, son of V. AI. Cliaille and Ella (Lambertson) 

C liaille, was born in AVhiteland, Indiana. Early in life the family re¬ 
moved to Indianapolis. Here Air. Cliaille was educated in the public schools, 
graduated from Shortridge, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from 
Franklin College. 

Mr. Cliaille owns and operates Emerson AY. Cliaille & Co., a real estate 
organization that specializes in ninety-nine-year leases, business property in¬ 
vestments, and the sale of high-grade residences and lots, located north. When 
Mr. Cliaille entered the real estate business in Indianapolis he found that the 
difficulty of the pronunciation of his name was a handicap to him—many per¬ 
sons did not call on him simply because they could not pronounce his name, 
while others came and found much difficulty with the name. Now whenever 
the name Cliaille is seen in Indianapolis—indeed, on his personal cards— 
there appears in parenthesis the words (Pronounced Shall-lay). This has be¬ 
come a widely known trade mark. Here a handicap was turned into a sub¬ 
stantial asset, and this is highly indicative of the man’s business acumen. 

His first business connection of importance was with the Stafford Engrav¬ 
ing Company, where he acted as sales manager. After spending some years with 
this concern. Air. Cliaille joined the McDougal Kitchen Cabinet Company, 
where, in addition to having charge of all sales, he was the advertising man¬ 
ager. His next position was with the Fletcher American National Bank. Here 
Air. Cliaille was head of the Department of New Business. 

Emerson AY. Cliaille & Co. was organized in 1910. Throughout the ensu¬ 
ing years Air. Cliaille has developed an enviable clientele. The firm is more than 
one that buys and sells. It administers; it acts in the capacity of a real estate 
attorney. 

Notable among the achievements credited to Air. Cliaille is the Alarcus 
Loew Theatre lease, negotiated four years ago, the largest ninetv-nine-year lease 
ever made in Indianapolis. 

The development of North Meridian Street as a commercial path of prog¬ 
ress, particularly in the automobile line, found in Air. Cliaille its first bene¬ 
factor. He built the first important business building north of Ohio Street, 
the Northern Building, at the southwest corner of North and Aleridian Streets. 
He encouraged many others to invest in similar enterprises in that locality, 
and all have been highly successful. 

Air. Cliaille is vice-president of the Indianapolis City Plan Commission 
and chairman of the Zoning Committee of that body. The duty of this latter 
croup is to establish a zone plan regulating the location of trades, industries, 
apartment houses, and other uses of property, the area of lots, the location and 
size of yards, the height of buildings, and the alignment of buildings near 
street frontages. This is unquestionably the most important step that has ever 
been undertaken in this direction. 

Airs. Cliaille, before her marriage, ivas Annabel AVilliams, daughter of 
David A. and Sallie E. AVilliams of this city. 

The offices of Air. Cliaille are located at 308 North Aleridian Street, and lie 
resides at 2252 North Pennsylvania Street. He is a member of the Columbia 
Club, the Highland Golf and Country Club, the Rotary Club, the Chamber of 
Commerce, and the Indianapolis Athletic ( lub. 


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DR. EDMUND D. CLARK 


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DR. EDMUND D. CLARK 


R. EDMI T ND D. CLARK who has attained distinctive success and prestige 



L J in the profession of surgery, was born in the village of Economy, Wayne 
County, Indiana, November 28, 1869, son of Dr. Jonathan B. and Matilda (Con¬ 
ley) Clark. The former was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, and 
the latter in Union County, Indiana. 

The preliminary education of the subject of this sketch was obtained in the 
public schools of the village of his birth. This was supplemented by a course of 
one year at Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and a course of two 
years at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, after which he matriculated at 
the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City, from which he grad¬ 
uated in 1891 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 

For one year immediately following his graduation Dr. Clark was in the 
state of Wyoming but then went to Baltimore, Maryland, where for two and 
one-half years he served as assistant surgeon in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. At 
that institution he gained a wide and valuable clinical experience. In 1896 Dr. 
Clark removed to Indianapolis, where he has since resided and engaged in the 
practice of surgery. 

On June 14, 1917 with the rank of Major, Dr. Clark was appointed director 
of the Lilly Base Hospital which later became officially known as United States 
Army Base Hospital No. 32, and it was under his supervision that the organiza¬ 
tion work of that unit was completed and the hospital prepared for overseas 
duty. From December 4, 1917 to July 15, 1918, Dr. Clark served United States 
Army Base Hospital No. 32 as Chief of the Surgical Service. On the last men¬ 
tioned date, however, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, he became command¬ 
ing officer of the unit and in this capacity served until January 14, 1919 when 
he was transferred to Angers for return to the United States. 

Dr. Clark is a member of the Indianapolis Medical Society, Indiana State 
Medical Society, American Medical Association, Western Surgical Association, 
American Association of Obstetricians, Gynecologists and Abdominal Surgeons 
and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In 1910 he was secretary 
of the Indiana School of Medicine and at the same time was Professor of Sur¬ 
gery of that institution. From 1905 to 1910 lie was president of the Indiana 
Board of Health and during the administration of Thomas Taggart as Mayor 
of the city of Indianapolis, acted as secretary of the Board of Health. 

Dr. Clark is a member of Pentalpha Lodge No. 564 F. & A. M. and has at¬ 
tained to the 32nd degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, being affiliated 
with Indiana Sovereign Consistory, Sublime Princess of the Royal Secret. He 
is also a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, University Club, Country 
Club (president 1922), and the Society of Mayflower Descendants. 

On June 1, 1893 Dr. Clark married Miss Harriett Lewis at Selma, Ind. 
There is one child, Mrs. Arnold B. Talbott, nee Helen Mary, who resides in 
Cleveland, Ohio. The family home is at 1321 North Meridian Street. 


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LLOYD D. CLAYCOMBE 


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LLOYD D. CLAYCOMBE 


I LOYD D. CLAYCOMBE, son of Victor E. and Roma A. 
^ 1 (Johnson) Claycombe, was bom February 7,1890, at Marengo, 
Crawford County, Indiana. His early education was received in 
the common schools of Jasper, Indiana. After graduation from 
the high school of this same town, he entered Indiana State Univer¬ 
sity, from which institution he graduated in 1914. 


The same year he was admitted to the bar of Marion County 
and began the general practice of law in Indianapolis. For about 
four years he was associated with Mr. James AY. Noel, after which, 
in 1918, he formed a partnership with Mr. C. H. Givan and Mr. 
Albert Stump under the firm name of Clavcombe, Givan and 
Stump. Upon the election of Mr. Givan to the Bench in 1922, 
however, the firm became Claycombe and Stump. 


In 1915 Mr. Claycombe was appointed receiver of the Winona 
Assembly at Winona Lake, Indiana, and was responsible for the 
reorganization of the Assembly, Mr. William J. Brvan becoming 
president of the new institution and Mr. Claycombe a member of 
the board of directors. 


Mr. Claycombe served as deputy prosecuting attorney of 
Marion County in 1916 and 1917. In 1922 he was elected to the 
City Council for a term of four years. Other civic affiliations 
include membership on the City Plan Commission and member¬ 
ship on the Board of Zoning Appeals. He has frequently served 
as special judge in the various courts of Marion County. 

When the United States entered the World War, Mr. Clay- 
combe was a first lieutenant in the Indiana National Guard, and 
entered the First Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Harrison, but 
was discharged early in the war because of injury received. He is 
a member of the American Legion. 

Mr. Claycombe is a 32nd degree Mason, member of the Mystic 
Tie Lodge, Knights Templar and a Shriner of the Murat Temple. 
He is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, Chamber of 
Commerce, Marion Club, and is National Chancellor of the Lambda 
Chi Alpha college fraternity. 

On September 14, 1918, Mr. Claycombe married Miss Jeanette 
Wuille at Hamilton, Ohio. There is a daughter, Mary Alice, and 
a son, Robert Alan. The family resides at 3856 College Avenue. 


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DR. WILLIAM F. CLEVENGER 


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WILLIAM F. CLEVENGER, M. D. 

W ILLIAM F. CLEVENGER, M. D., was born at Taylorsville, 
Indiana, November 11, 1871, son of George W. and Carolyn 
(Mnsser) Clevenger. His early education was obtained in the 
public schools of Johnson Comity, Missouri, after which he at¬ 
tended the State Normal College at Warrensburg, Missouri, from 
which he graduated in 1891. in October of that same year he en¬ 
tered the Indiana Medical College (now the Medical Department 
of Indiana University) and from this institution was graduated 
in 1894, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 

Upon the completion of his medical course Dr. Clevenger 
spent a year and a half as an externe in the Indianapolis City Dis¬ 
pensary. This was followed by the general practice of medicine 
for a period of three years in the offices of Dr. Franklin W. Hays. 
Then for one year Dr. Clevenger attended the New York Poly¬ 
clinic, served as assistant to Dr. Robert C. Myles in the ear, nose 
and throat clinic of the New Amsterdam Hospital, New York, and 
for eight months was assistant to Dr. James Newcombe (now 
deceased) in the outdoor clinic—ear, nose and throat depart of 
the Roosevelt Hospital of New York City. 

Since 1898 Dr. Clevenger has continuously practiced surgery 
of the ear, nose and throat in Indianapolis, with the exception of a 
period of six months in 1905 which was spent in clinical work in 
London, Berlin, Feiburg (in Baden) and Paris and a period of 
eight months in 1912 spent in Clinical work in Vienna. 

During the World War, with the rank of Captain, in the 
American Red Cross, Dr. Clevenger served for eight months in 
France as ear, nose and throat surgeon in the American Red Cross 
Hospital at Place, Clichy in Paris. Upon the conclusion of the war 
he was transferred to the Medical Reserve Corp of the United 
States Army, in which he retains his rank of captain. 

Dr. Clevenger is a member of the American Medical Associa¬ 
tion, a member of the Indiana State and Indianapolis Medical 
Societies, Fellow of the American Academy of Opthalmologv and 
Oto-laryngology and a Fellow of the American College of Sur¬ 
geons. He is also a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Highland Golf and Country Club, the Columbia Club and in the 
Masonic fraternity is a member of the Mystic Tie Lodge, Scottish 
Rite and the Murat Temple. 

The marriage of Dr. Clevenger to Miss Louise M. Weaver 
occurred at Indianapolis, July 5, 1922. There is one daughter by 
a former marriage, Mrs. Henry C. Thornton, Jr., nee Miss Zelda 
Wallace Clevenger. Dr. and Mrs. Clevenger reside at the Winter 
Apartments. 


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FRED CLINE 


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FRED CLINE 

J7 RED CLINE, for many years identified with the real estate 

business of Indianapolis, was born at Danville, Indiana, Sep¬ 
tember 25,1878, son of William and Malissa Ellen (Bishop) Cline. 
His early education was obtained in the public schools of Clayton, 
Danville and Indianapolis, having come to this city in 1894. 

Immediately upon the conclusion of his schooling, Mr. Cline 
accepted employment as a clerk in a grocery store and as such 
was engaged for a period of approximately one year. In 1897 
he entered his father’s office as a real estate salesman. In 1900 
he entered the real estate firm of W. E. Stevenson & Company 
and with that company was continuously identified until 1909, 
when he opened an office for himself on East Market Street, where 
the J. F. Wild State Bank is now located. 

In 1913, upon the death of Mr. W. E. Stevenson, Mr. Cline 
reentered the firm of W. E. Stevenson & Company as secretary 
and treasurer, but in 1915 he again resigned from that company 
to independently engage in the real estate and investment business 
under the firm name of Fred Cline Company. During the years 
that he has independently operated, Mr. Cline has closed many of 
the largest real estate transactions and ninety-nine year leases in 
the city, down town real estate properties and ninety-nine year 
leases being his particular specialty. 

On January 1, 1922, Mr. Cline was appointed a member of 
the Indianapolis Board of Park Commissioners and is at this time 
vice-president of that organization. Mr. Cline is a member of the 
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Highland Golf and Country 
Club and the Indianapolis Athletic Club. 


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HARRY 0. COBB 


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HARRY 0. COBB 

|_JARRY 0. COBB, diamond merchant and platinumsmith, was 

born at Maysville, Kentucky, July 23, 1890, son of Lewis F. 
and Clara Jane (Bradford) Cobb. His education was received in 
the public schools of Indianapolis, having been removed to this 
city by his parents when but six }^ears of age. 

Upon the completion of his schooling, Mr. Cobb was variously 
employed until 1906, when lie became an apprentice jeweler and 
as such served for a period of three years. He then opened an 
office in the State Life Building as an engraver for the trade, and 
in this capacity devoted himself to engraving for jewelers of the 
city. In 1911, Mr. Cobb accepted a position with one of the large 
jewelry establishments of Indianapolis and for a period of six 
years occupied an important position with that firm. 

Determined to engage in business independently, however, 
Mr. Cobb, in February, 1917, established in a comparatively small 
wav a manufacturing jewelry shop under his own name in the 
State Life Building and from this lias developed the present shop 
of Harry O. Cobb, one of the most attractive of its kind in the 
middle west and the largest store of its kind in this city. 

Mr. Cobb is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Indianap¬ 
olis Athletic Club, Hoosier Athletic Club, and the Kiwanis Club. 
In the Masonic fraternity is a member of Center Lodge, No. 23, 
F. & A. M., Chapter and Council of York Rite, Scottish Rite, 
Sahara Grotto, of which he was one of the organizers, and the 
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

The marriage of Mr. Cobb to Miss Mable Etter took place at 
Lebanon, Indiana, September 1, 1919. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb reside 
at 3538 Washington Boulevard. 


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CHARLES E. COFFIN 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OP AFFAIRS 


CHARLES E. COFFIN 


C HARLES E. COFFIN, secretary-treasurer 
of the Star Publishing Company, publish¬ 
ers of the Indianapolis Star, the Muncie Star 
and the Terre Haute Star, was born at Salem, 
Indiana, son of Zachariah T. and Caroline 
(Armfield) Coffin. His father was a tanner 
and Justice of the Peace. Mr. Coffin’s educa¬ 
tion was received in the public schools of Salem 
and Bloomington, Indiana, to which latter 
city the family moved in 1862. 

In 1869 Mr. Coffin came to Indianapolis, 
where he became associated with the firm of 
Wylie & Martin, real estate dealers. He re¬ 
mained with them six years and then estab¬ 
lished a real estate business of his own and 
which continued in existence until 1899, when 
the Central Trust Company was organized by 
Mr. Coffin. This company he has continuously 
served as president, although the company is 
now closing its business as a corporation, hav¬ 
ing consolidated with the Farmers Trust Com¬ 
pany, of which Mr. Coffin is chairman of the 
board of directors. 

Mr. Coffin was one of the organizers and 
an original stockholder and for many years 
was president of the Indianapolis & Eastern 
Railroad Company. He became treasurer of 
the Star Publishing Company in October, 1911, 
since which date he has been secretary and a 
member of the board of directors of the 
company. 

Under eight mayors of Indianapolis, Mr. 
Coffin has served on the city’s park board, his 
service beginning in 1899 with his appointment 
by Mayor Thomas Taggart. His long service 
on the Board of Indianapolis Park Commission¬ 
ers closed on January 2, 1922, when he was ap¬ 
pointed president of the Board of Public Works 


by Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank. Mr. Coffin 
has been instrumental in bringing the park and 
boulevard systems of Indianoplis into national 
attention. 

Mr. Coffin has varied business and social 
interests, being president of the Indiana Sav¬ 
ings and Investment Company, a $3,000,000 
corporation organized in 1889. He is treasur¬ 
er of the Indiana Historical Society, the Gov¬ 
ernor of the Society of Colonial Wars, presi¬ 
dent of the Board of Trustees of the Meridian 
Street Methodist Episcopal Church and a 
director of the Woodstock Country Club. 

For many years Mr. Coffin has been an 
authority on the game of Whist, and has 
played at several Congresses of the American 
Whist League. In 1923 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of the American Whist League. He has 
written several books on methods of playing 
Whist and Auction Bridge, and his works are 
recognized as authority on the games. 

Mr. Coffin is a member of the Indianapolis 
Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Ath¬ 
letic Club, the Columbia Club, the Indianapolis 
Board of Trade, the Indiana Society of Chi¬ 
cago, the University Club, the Contemporary 
Club, the Country Club, the AVoodstock Club, 
the Indianapolis Art Association, the Indiana 
Historical Society, the Indiana Pioneers’ So¬ 
ciety, and Optimist Club. 

On September 20, 1897, he married Mary 
Birch Fletcher at Indianapolis. They have 
three children: Clarence Eugene Coffin of In¬ 
dianapolis ; Mrs. J. H. Ingram, wife of Com¬ 
mander Ingram of the United States Navy, 
and Mrs. Charles Harvey Bradley, Jr. The 
family home is at 1213 North Meridian Street. 


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OF AFFAIRS 



CHARLES F. COFFIN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CHARLES F. COFFIN 


C HARLES F. COFFIN, Vice-President, General 
Counsel and Agency Manager of The State Life 
Insurance Company, was born on a farm in Marion 
County, Indiana, June 2, 1856, son of Dr. Benjamin F. 
and Emily J. (Harlan) Coffin. The Coffin family is 
of English origin and was founded in America in the 
early colonial period at Nantucket, Massachusetts. The 
Harlan family was established in colonial days in 
Virginia. 

Mr. Coffin received his early education in the public 
schools of Westfield, Hamilton County, Indiana. He 
then attended DePauw University, from which he grad¬ 
uated in 1881, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts, 
and three years later received the degree of Master of 
Arts. During his college days, he was the first repre¬ 
sentative of DePauw University to win an Indiana state 
oratorical prize and was also the first Indiana student 
to win an inter-state oratorical prize. 

Upon graduating from DePauw University he became 
a teacher in the Indianapolis public schools, but four 
weeks later left Indianapolis to become principal of the 
high school at Connersville, Indiana. In 1882 he was 
selected superintendent of the New Albany public schools, 
to which position he was re-elected for three successive 
terms. In 1885 Mr. Coffin resigned his position as 
School Superintendent to study law in the office of the 
late Hon. Alexander Dowling of New Albany, Indiana, 
and who later became a judge of the Indiana supreme 
court. Mr. Coffin was admitted to the practice of law 
in Indiana in 1886, but in 1887 went to Wichita, Kan¬ 
sas, to engage in law practice in that city. He remained 
in Wichita until 1893, when he returned to Indiana to 
become Dean of the law school of DePauw University. 
After one year in this capacity, however, Mr. Coffin 
resigned to enter the general practice of law at Indianap¬ 
olis. In 1894 Mr. Coffin was one of the group of men 
to organize the State Life Insurance Company, and now 
occupies the positions previously noted. 

Mr. Coffin has the distinction of being one of the 
first persons in the United States to organize a men’s 
class in connection with Sunday School work. This 
class was organized at the Central Avenue Methodist 
Episcopal Church in 1893, with twelve members, and 
afterwards reached a membership of more than three 
hundred. He has also been active in other church work 
and for three years was president of the Indiana Inter- 
Denominational Sunday School Association, and in ad¬ 
dition to this he has for the last twelve years been a 
member of the Board of Managers of the Methodist 
Board of Education for Negroes, which has charge of 
some nineteen schools and colleges for colored people 
of the South. 

Probably no single phase of Mr. Coffin’s interesting 
career is more indelibly imprinted upon the pages of 
the history of Indianapolis than is that pertaining to 
the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. To this institu¬ 


tion he has given time and energy without stint, and his 
reputation as a forceful speaker and a clear thinker on 
civic and commercial topics is not limited to his own 
state. In 1919, Mr. Coffin, after having served for 
two terms as Vice-President, was elected President of 
the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and to this 
position he was re-elected in 1920 and again re-elected 
in 1921. Not only has he the distinction of being the 
only man who has ever held this office for three con¬ 
secutive terms, but in each instance he was elected with¬ 
out solicitation on his part. 

It was while Mr. Coffin was president of the Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce and at his instigation, that the neces¬ 
sary legislation to create the City Plan Commission was 
secured. It was also during his term that the American 
Legion Headquarters were brought to Indianapolis, and 
it is a notable fact that while he directed the affairs 
of the Chamber of Commerce, the membership of that 
organization was increased from approximately one 
thousand members to over forty-five hundred members. 

In connection with the Chamber of Commerce activi¬ 
ties, it may be said that Mr. Coffin is regarded as an 
authority. Not only has he spoken before large au¬ 
diences in many cities of this country and Europe on 
Chamber of Commerce work, but frequently has he been 
asked to give counsel and advice upon matters of 
civic importance. To him, Indianapolis is deeply in¬ 
debted for the creation of much favorable opinion and 
high regard when reference is made to the Great Hoosier 
Capital. 

In 1920, Mr. Coffin had the singular honor of being 
an American delegate to Paris for the purpose of or¬ 
ganizing the International Chamber of Commerce. As 
a founder member of this body, he was elected a dele¬ 
gate to the first annual meeting of the International 
Chamber of Commerce held in London in 1921. That 
same year, he was a delegate to the Ecumenical Metho¬ 
dist Conference, a convention which is held only once in 
every ten years, and to be sent to which is regarded in 
church circles as a mark of more than ordinary distinc¬ 
tion. 

Mr. Coffin is a member of Southport Lodge, No. 270, 
F. and A. M.; Keystone Chapter, No. 6, Royal Arch Ma¬ 
sons; the Raper Commandry, No. 1, Knights Templar, 
and is a member of the Knights of Pythias order, in 
which for four years he represented the Grand Tribunal 
of Indiana. He is also a member of the Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, Indi¬ 
anapolis Literary Club, and the Century Club. He is a 
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternity, 
and in 1880 represented his chapter at the national con¬ 
vention of the fraternity. 

On October 26, 1887, Mr. Coffin married Miss Sallie 
Dowling at New Albany. They have three children— 
Charles F., Jr., Jean and Natalie Coffin. The family 
home is at 3305 North Meridian Street. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



RALPH L. COLBY 


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RALPH L. COLBY 

R ALPH L. COLBY, son of Guy Irving and Lucy M. (Higgins) 
Colby, was born in Chicago, Illinois, February 28,1892. While 
still a young boy, his parents moved to Springfield, Illinois, in 
which city he attended grade school and was also graduated from 
the high school of that city. 

Immediately after finishing high school, Mr. Colby went to 
Boston, Massachusetts, and worked for two years with liis father’s 
firm, Colbv-Higgins Company. Following the death of his father 
in 1911, Mr. Colby sold school supplies for a company that was 
the outgrowth of the one with which his father was associated. 

In 1913 he went to San Antonio, Texas, where he was associated 
with the Franklin Life Insurance Company. He remained with 
that company until 1918, when he went to Houston, Texas, as state 
manager for the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company 
of Minneapolis. He was also identified with the firm of Cravens, 
Dargan and Roberts. 

In 1920 Mr. Colby came to Indianapolis and again took up work 
with the Franklin Life Insurance Company as state manager and 
general agent for Indiana. 

Throughout his life he has felt the urge of civic interests and 
during the war, Mi*. Colby was especially active in the Liberty 
Bond and War Savings Stamp work in the interest of the govern¬ 
ment. In 1920 he was president of the Southern Texas Life Un¬ 
derwriters Association and in such capacity became vitally inter¬ 
ested in the civic affairs of paramount interest in his territory. 

Mr. Colby is a Mason, affiliated with the Scottish Rite, a 
member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Columbia Club, Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce, Athenaeum, Indianapolis Association of Life 
Underwriters, and a member of the executive council of Boy 
Scouts of America. 

He married Miss Alix R. Bettison, of San Antonio, Texas, in 
that city, on August 14, 1915. There are two children, a daughter, 
Alix Bettison Colby, and a son, Ralph L. Colby, Jr. 


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J. J. COLE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


J. J. COLE 


J. COLE, president and general manager 
J ♦ of the Cole Motor Car Company, was born 
near Connersville, Indiana, March 23, 1869, 
son of Joseph J. and Margaret (Thomas) Cole 
His early boyhood was spent on the farm near 
Connersville and his first education obtained 
in the public schools of that city. At the age 
of eighteen, shortly after he had finished a 
short course in a business school, Mr. Cole 
came to Indianapolis and went to work in the 
Parry Buggy Company. His rise was rapid. 

After three years in the home office of the 
organization, Mr. Cole became manager of the 
Philadelphia branch of the Parry Company. 
During his three years in Philadelphia he so 
thoroughly convinced his employers of his 
ability as a salesman that he was recalled and 
sent out into the West with instructions to sell 
more buggies, and this he did. A competitive 
organization, the Moon Brothers Carriage 
Company, heard of his remarkable record and 
offered him a position; the offer appealed to 
Mr. Cole and he took it. This was in 1898. 

Mr. Cole was ordered to Texas, the “no 
man’s land” for buggy salesmen. In a short 
time he was making record-breaking sales in 
that locality, and in 1900 he was elected secre¬ 
tary of the company. Buggy traffic was at 
this time beginning to weigh upon Mr. Cole’s 
mind. He began saving for a day that was to 
be either very rainy or full of sunshine. When 
the opportunity came he went into business for 
himself. It was known as the Cole Carriage 
Company and it prospered. The automobile 
industry was just beginning to get on the right 
side of the business ledger, just becoming a sta¬ 
ble business, just beyond the trial period when 
Mr. Cole decided to quit the buggy business 
and devote his life to the manufacture of 
automobiles. 

In 1907 the Cole Motor Car Company came 
to life and the Cole Carriage Company became 
extinct. The business represented an invest¬ 
ment of five thousand dollars. Now it is a 
five-million-dollar corporation. Mr. Cole has 
always been a step or two ahead of things. He 
went into racing at the proper time and after 


establishing an enviable reputation withdrew 
from this medium of advertising. When the 
aeroplane became a fad, it was the Cole flyer 
that first flew from coast to coast. 

The newness of any current product makes 
it highly desirable. Men go out of their way 
to obtain fresh news or gossip pertaining to 
that which is about to occur, while untold mil¬ 
lions are expended each year seeking to create 
the original, the untried and the previously 
unknown. We are living in just that sort of 
atmosphere. The almost insatiable demand of 
an alert society finds itself wrapped up on 
something it cannot have. Strange, but abso¬ 
lutely true. The public mind, thoroughly 
sensed, is invariably understood as being de¬ 
sirous of possessing an article whose inherent 
qualities reveal what Mr. Cole, who does just 
enough of the right thing at the right time to 
accomplish his purpose, has aptly pronounced 
“a touch of tomorrow.” 

That “tomorrowness” of idea manifested in 
the article, supported by a substantial raison 
d’ etre, strikes with one blow the human eye, 
mind and purse. And providing this magic 
wand, this power of exciting the affections, has 
been the work of the subject of this review. It 
has been the work of a mind that fully appre¬ 
ciates the sturdiness and the steadfastness of 
older ages, but a mind that combines with these 
the eager enthusiasm that develops the creative 
instinct. The out-of-the-ordinary productions 
have been devoid of radicalism, because Mr. 
Cole has always exercised reasonable restraint, 
and tempered with grace, elegance and practi¬ 
cability the many novel notions lie has given 
the automobile industry. 

In addition to his business affiliations, Mr. 
Cole is a member of the Columbia Club, High¬ 
land Golf and Country Club, IToosier Athletic 
Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Chamber of 
Commerce, Board of Trade, and National Au¬ 
tomobile Chamber of Commerce. 

The marriage of Mr. Cole to Miss Nellie G. 
Goodmoon took place at Connersville, Indiana, 
September 1, 1891. There is one son, Joseph 
J. Jr. 


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LEWIS AUSTIN COLEMAN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


LEWIS AUSTIN COLEMAN 

T EAA IS AUSTIN COLEMAN, of the firm of Holtzman & 
L-* Coleman, lawyers, was born in Tipton Countv, Indiana, Octo¬ 
ber 26, 1873. 

His father was George W. Coleman, son of Richard Coleman, 
son of Robert Coleman, of Essex County, Virginia, later of Ken¬ 
tucky and still later of Shelby and Boone counties, Indiana, Robert 
Coleman having entered land just east of Lebanon on October 8, 
1835. George AY. Coleman served four years in Company F, 40tli 
Iowa Infantry. 

The subject of this sketch received his early education in the 
public schools of Tipton County, Indiana. In 1895 he entered the 
law office of Robert B. Beauchamp, of Tipton. He graduated 
from the Indiana Law School in May, 1898. He entered the law 
office of Holtzman & Leathers following graduation and when Air. 
Leathers was elected judge, he became associated with Air. Holtz¬ 
man, which association still continues. 

For some years past, Air. Coleman has devoted practically all 
of his time to corporation work. 

He was president of the Indianapolis Bar Association during 
the year 1922. 

He was instrumental in the organization of the Continental 
National Bank, Bankers Trust Company, Sterling Eire Insurance 
Company and other local financial institutions, and is a member 
of the Board of Directors of a number of them. 

He is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, a 
charter member of the Indiana Democratic Club and the Indianap¬ 
olis Athletic Club. He is also a York Rite Alason and a member 
of the Central Christian Church. 

Air. Coleman takes pride in the operation of a farm north of 
the city and the breeding of Guernsey cattle and other registered 
live stock. On a number of occasions he has entertained the In¬ 
dianapolis Bar Association and other organizations at his farm. 

On June 23, 1897, Air. Coleman married AI aggie A. Davis, of 
Tipton, Indiana. They have three children, Robert D. Coleman, a 
graduate of Indiana University, and who is taking his law at Har¬ 
vard University; Alary Alice Coleman, also a graduate of Indiana 
University and who is attending Columbia. The youngest, John 
L. Coleman, is in high school. 

The family home is at 3535 North Pennsylvania Street. 


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HON. JAMES A. COLLINS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. JAMES A. COLLINS 

I—ION. JAMES A. COLLINS, Judge of the Criminal Court of Marion County, 
Indiana, was born at Arlington, Massachusetts, October 12, 1870, son of 
Joseph and Jane (LaVelle) Collins. Ilis education was obtained in the public 
schools of Cambridge, Mass. After graduating from the Washington Grammar 
School, he attended the Cambridge Latin School for one year. Ilis father 
died in 1887, while James A., of this sketch, was preparing for college and he 
was thus compelled to leave school. He secured employment with Joel Goldth- 
wait and Company, of Boston, and remained with that firm for three years 
when he became assistant secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Springfield, Massa¬ 
chusetts. While in this position he prepared for a general secretaryship and 
was later called to serve as secretary at Matteawan, New York. From that 
town, he was called to Lyons, New York, as the General Secretary of the 
Association there. He resigned from this association and took up the study of 
law with the lion. Charles II. Ray, a former class mate of Elihu Root at Ham¬ 
ilton College. In 1895 he married Lillie T. Knapp of Lyons, New York, and 
came to Indianapolis that same year. 

In 1898 he entered the law office of Griffith and Potts. Upon the disso¬ 
lution of that firm he continued in the office of John L. Griffith and with him 
remained for a period of five years. In 1899 he was appointed deputy prose¬ 
cuting attorney under Edwin B. Pugh and upon the election of John C. Ruehel- 
shaus, two years later as prosecuting attorney, he was appointed deputy prose¬ 
cutor in the police court, serving in that capacity for two years. 

On leaving the Police Court, he entered the general practice forming a 
partnership with the late Charles E. Averill under the firm name of Averill and 
Collins. He remained with this firm until he was elected Judge of the City 
Court of Indianapolis in 1909. As judge of the Police Court, he established a 
system of Adult Probation that attracted attention throughout the country 
and inaugurated the system for the collection of money fines on installments. 

In 1914 lie was elected Judge of the Criminal Court of Marion County and 
was re-elected in 1918 and 1922. He is the fourteenth incumbent of this court 
since its establishment in 1867 and the only person who was ever elected to 
serve a third term. During all the years that he has served as Judge of the 
Criminal Court he has maintained a system of adult probation similar to that 
established by him in the City Court. 

In addition to his official duties Judge Collins has been actively identified 
with the industrial, political and social development of Indianapolis. He is a 
member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association 
and the American Bar Association. He is an Honorary member of the Indi¬ 
anapolis Rotary Club and a member of the Columbia Club, the Marion Club 
and the McKinley Club. He is also a Scottish Rite Mason and a member of 
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He has been a member of St. Paul’s 
Episcopal Church during all the years that he has resided in Indianapolis. 

The Judge and Mrs. Collins reside at 439 Walcott Street. They have two 
children John II. Collins, who served with the Motor Transport Corp in 
France during the AVorld War, and Miss Elizabeth L. Collins. 


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EARL R. CONDER 


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EARL RICHARDS CONDER 

U 1 ARL RICHARDS CONDER, attorney, member of tlie firm of 
■*— 1 Pickens, Cox, Cornier & Bain, was born at Orleans, Orange 
County, Indiana, March 31, 1877, son of Charles A. and Ivate A. 
(Richards) Cornier. 

The early education of the subject of this sketch was acquired 
in the public schools of Orleans. In 1893 he became cashier of the 
Bank of Orleans, later the National Bank of Orleans, and after 
ten years in this position entered the University of Michigan, 
from which he was graduated in 1905 with the degree of Bachelor 
of Laws. Prior to this time, in 1903, Mr. Conder was admitted 
to the practice of law in the Orange Circuit Court. 

Upon the completion of his university course, Mr. Conder 
came to Indianapolis and has continuously followed the practice 
of law in this city in which he has gained an enviable reputation and 
position of esteem. 

Mr. Conder was a delegate from the Indiana Conference to 
the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held 
in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1920. He is president of the Indianapolis 
Bar Association, president of the Church Federation of Indianap¬ 
olis, a member and chairman of the board of stewards of the Cen¬ 
tral Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church of this city, and since 
1921 has been chairman of the executive committee of the Indi¬ 
anapolis Council, Boy Scouts of America. 

The club affiliations of Mr. Conder together with the pro¬ 
fessional organizations of which he is a member include the Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce, Ancient Landmarks Lodge, No. 319, F. & A. M., 
Marion Club, Columbia Club, Lawyers Club, the Indianapolis, 
Indiana State and American Bar Associations and the Commer¬ 
cial Law League of America. 

The marriage of Mr. Conder to Miss Edith Walker occurred 
at Orleans, Indiana, October 7, 1896. There is one son, Robert W. 
Conder, born August 25, 1903, now a student at DePauw Univer¬ 
sity. 


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OWEN J. CONRAD 


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OWEN J. CONRAD 


WEN J. CONRAD, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Driscoll) Con¬ 



rad, was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, July 25, 1868. 
Ilis academic education was obtained in the schools of the county 
of his birth, after which he came to Indianapolis and here accepted 
employment in the organization of Charles Mayer & Company. 

With the exception of a period of eight years, during which 
he was in the employe of the above mentioned, Mr. Conrad has 
always been independently engaged in business affairs. In 1891 
he launched into business for himself, opening a general mer¬ 
chandise business at 332-334 Massachusetts Avenue and this he 
conducted until July 1,1915, when he sold his interests and retired 
temporarily from commercial enterprises. In 1918, however, he 
became associated with Mr. Fred E. Barrett, elsewhere mentioned 
in this volume, in the organization of the Continental Finance & 
Securities Company, an Indiana corporation with an authorized 
capital of $1,000,000 engaged in the purchase and sale of commer ¬ 
cial paper, of which he has continuously been the president. 

Mr. Conrad is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Co¬ 
lumbia Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Highland Golf and Coun¬ 
try Club and the Indianapolis Academy of Music. In the Masonic 
fraternity he is a member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. M., 
York Rite and the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine, being a 
life member of the last mentioned. 

The marriage of Mr. Conrad to Miss Eloise Sclienck occurred 
at Paris, Illinois, October 3, 1904. There is one son, Owen Mcln- 
tire Conrad. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



LINTON A. COX 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. LINTON A. COX 

T_ION. LINTON A. COX, member of the firm of Pickens, Cox, 

Cornier and Bain, attorneys, was born at Azalia, Indiana, 
September 2, 1868, son of William and Sarah J. (Newsom) Cox. 
His early education was obtained in the public schools of the 
county of his birth, after which he attended Earlham College at 
Richmond, Indiana, from which he graduated in 1888 with the 
degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He then attended the Law 
School of the University of Michigan and from that institution 
graduated in 1890 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. 

Almost immediately upon the completion of the last men¬ 
tioned collegiate course, Mr. Cox came to Indianapolis, was ad ¬ 
mitted to the Indiana bar and in this city has since continuously 
engaged in the practice of law. In addition, however, Mr. Cox has 
during his residence in Indianapolis, also taken a keen interest in 
public affairs. As State Senator from Marion County in the 
sixty-fifth and sixty-sixth General Assemblies (1906-1910) he was 
recognized as the author of the measure fixing the price of gas in 
Indianapolis at sixty cents per thousand, which he successfully 
pushed through both Houses of the Legislature. He was also a 
factor in establishing the present system of depositories for public 
funds under which all public funds yield interest to the public 
while held in official depositories under ample security. In con¬ 
nection with political activities, Mr. Cox was also, in 1910, nomi¬ 
nated by the Republican party for Congress from the Seventh 
Congressional District. 

Mr. Cox is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State and 
American Bar Associations, the Commercial League of America, 
the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and the Marion Club. 

The marriage of Mr. Cox to Miss Elizabeth Harvey occurred 
at Indianapolis, June 19, 1890, There are seven children, Thomas 
Harvey, Mrs. Lyman B. Whitaker, nee Katherine; Addition Har¬ 
is, Linton A., Jr., Frank Harvey, Mrs. Hubbard Hathaway, nee 
Eleanor; and William E. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



CLARENCE E. CRIPPIN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CLARENCE E. CRIPPIN 

^LAREXCE E. CRIPPIN, president of the Enquirer Printing 
^ and Publishing Company and associated in the publication of 
the Indianapolis Commercial, a daily financial newspaper, was 
born May 21, 1869 on a farm near Nit. Pleasant, Michigan, son of 
Miles and Alice (Fisk) Crippin. His early education was re¬ 
ceived in the public schools of his native state. 

Since coming to Indianapolis in 1886, Mr. Crippin has been 
continuously identified with the leading printing and publishing 
firms of the city. His first printing connection was with Baker 
& Randolph. Later, for twelve years, he was a proof reader for 
the Indianapolis Morning Star. At various times he was connected 
with the old Indianapolis Sentinel, the Indianapolis Press and the 
Indianapolis News. 

In 1911, Mr. Crippin and his son, Charles M. Crippin, formed 
what was known as Crippin & Son, printers. A year later, George 
W. Hargitt became associated with the firm and the business be¬ 
came known as Crippin & Hargitt. continuing until 1915, when it 
was merged with the Anchor Printing Company, under the name 
of the Consolidated Printing Company, of which Mr. Crippin was 
president. 

Early in 1918 the business of the Consolidated Printing Com¬ 
pany was merged with the Enquirer Printing and Publishing 
Company, of which the late J. Frank Hanlv, one-time governor of 
the state of Indiana, became president and Mr. Crippin secre¬ 
tary. On the death of Mr. Hanlv, in 1920, Mr. Crippin became 
president of the Enquirer Printing and Publishing Company. 
Early in 1923, the company completed an addition to its building 
at 309 East Ohio Street which has doubled the floor space and 
capacity of the company. 

As a member of the Indianapolis Board of School Commis¬ 
sioners from 1917 until 1922, Mr. Crippin and other members of 
the board inaugurated a program of expansion of the city schools 
which resulted in making Indianapolis one of the foremost school 
cities in the United States. He was president of the board in 1920. 

Mr. Crippin is a member of all the York and Scottish Rite 
bodies of the Masonic organization and is a past master of Mystic 
Tie Lodge, No. 398. He is a past president of the Indianapolis 
Typographical Union, his connection with the union dating back 
to 1887. He is a member of the United Typotlietae, the Indianap¬ 
olis Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Athletic Club and 
the Kiwanis Club of Indianapolis. 

Mr. Crippin married Miss Arabella Shoemaker in Indianap¬ 
olis on May 5, 1893. They have two children, Charles M. Crippin, 
associated with his father in the printing firm, and Mrs. Alice M. 
Goodall. The family resides at Cold Springs and Michigan Roads. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JAMES S. CRUSE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JAMES S. CRUSE 

T AMES S. CRUSE, president of the J. S. Cruse Realty Company, 
J was born July 16, 1858, at New Albany, Indiana, son of John 
P. and Anna M. (Dudley) Cruse. He came with his parents to 
Indianapolis when he was five years old, was educated in the In¬ 
dianapolis public schools, and has lived in this city continuously 
more than a half century. 

After leaving school Mr. Cruse became a clerk in the abstract 
office of John H. Batty, where he remained one year. For a 
short time he was in the real estate office of G. S. Bradlev and 
then joined the firm of Dain & McCullough. Mr. McCullough 
withdrew from the firm, and upon the death of Mr. Dain, in 1883, 
the business was acquired by Mr. Cruse. A change in the firm 
name was not made, however, until a reorganization in December, 
1908, when it was incorporated as the J. S. Cruse Realty Company. 
Several employees who had been with Mr. Cruse many years were 
given blocks of stock in the company at the time of the reorganiza¬ 
tion. 

The company lias specialized in real estate, rentals and insur¬ 
ance since the beginning, but in this connection it is interesting to 
note that when Mr. Cruse first began in the business only 101 
tenants were listed, while at this time more than 5,000 tenants are 
listed with the company bearing his name. A staff of fifteen per¬ 
sons is now necessary to conduct the business. 

Mr. Cruse married Miss Fannie J. Jones at St. Louis, Mis¬ 
souri, in 1896. The family home is at 1611 North Meridian Street. 

He is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, 
Board of Trade, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Columbia Club, Mar¬ 
ion Club, Scottish Rite, Mystic Shrine, and the Odd Fellows Lodge. 


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DR. JOHN M. CUNNINGHAM 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. JOHN M. CUNNINGHAM 

J~^R. JOHN M. CUNNINGHAM, son of William B. and Mary 

(Young) Cunningham, was born in Putman County, Indiana, 
January 15, 1877. His preliminary education was obtained in the 
schools of the county of his birth, after which, in 1894, he entered 
the preparatory department of Butler College. Upon the comple¬ 
tion of this course he entered Butler College and from that institu¬ 
tion graduated in 1901 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He 
then entered the Indiana Medical College, graduating therefrom 
in 1904, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 

Immediately following his graduation from medical college, 
Dr. Cunningham became interne at the Indianapolis City Hospital 
and in that capacity served for a period of one year, after which 
he entered into the general practice of medicine in Indianapolis, 
where he has since been continuously engaged, having achieved to 
a position of distinction in the profession of his selection. 

In addition to the general practice of medicine, Dr. Cunning¬ 
ham has, since almost immediately upon the completion of his 
medical training, been identified with the teaching staff of the 
Indiana Medical School. He was for seven years an instructor in 
the Anatomical Department of the Indiana Medical School and 
since 1911 has been directly associated with the department of 
Internal Medicine of that institution. 

Dr. Cunningham is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana 
State and American Medical Associations and upon the staffs of 
the City, St. Vincent and Methodist Hospitals. He is also a mem¬ 
ber of the Woodstock Club, Meridian Hills Golf and County Club, 
and the First Baptist Church. In the Masonic fraternity he is 
identified with M} r stic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. M. 

The marriage of Dr. Cunningham to Miss Lena M. Randall 
took place at Oneida, New York, June 7, 1905. Mrs. Cunningham 
died November 10, 1918. There is one daughter, Miss Angelvn B., 
now a student at Tudor Hall. 


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Photograph by Bretsman 

ROBERT FROST DAGGETT 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ROBERT FROST DAGGETT 


D OBERT FROST DAGGETT, architect, was born at Indianap- 
olis, Indiana, March 13, 1875, son of R. P. Daggett and Caro¬ 
line E. (Frost) Daggett. He was educated in the public schools 
of Indianapolis and graduated from the Indianapolis High 
School, now Shortridge High School, in 1893. 

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School 


of Architecture in 1896, he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts at 
Paris, France, from which he graduated in 1901, receiving a 
diploma from the French Government. 

Returning to Indianapolis in 1901, he became associated with 
his father in the practice of architecture under the firm name of 
R. P. Daggett & Company. In November, 1917, Mr. Daggett en¬ 
tered the United States Army as a First Lieutenant in the Air 
Service assigned to the 472nd Aero Squadron, and in January, 
1918, sailed overseas with the squadron to which he was attached. 
In July of that year, however, he was transferred to the Engineers 
with rank of Captain and assigned to the staff of the Section En¬ 
gineer Officer, Base Section No. 1. with headquarters at St. Na- 
zaire, France. In this capacity Mr. Daggett had supervision of 
the construction of the many hospitals in that base section, the 
hospitals ranging from 1,000 to 25.000 beds capacity. Shortly 
after the signing of the Armistice, Mr. Daggett was discharged 
from the army, when he returned to Indianapolis to resume his 
practice of architecture. 

The more important buildings of Indianapolis for which Mr. 
Daggett has been the architect are the Robert W. Long Hospital 
at Indianapolis, the Indiana University School of Medicine, ad¬ 
jacent to the Long Hospital, the City Trust Building, the Con¬ 
solidated Building, the Eli Lilly Company plant, Indianapolis 
and Greenfield, the new nine-storv Italian Renaissance structure 
of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Tabernacle Presbyterian 
Church, and the James Whitcomb Riley Children’s Hospital, 
which is being built near the Long Hospital and Indiana Univer¬ 


sity School of Medicine. 

Mr. Daggett is architect for Indiana University, Purdue Uni¬ 
versity, and DePauw University, having designed and supervised 
the erection of several buildings at each of these universities. He 
is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Indiana 
Society of Architects, the Indianapolis Architects’ Association, 
the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Kiwanis Club, Service Club and 
the Country Club of Indianapolis. In the Masonic fraternity he 
is affiliated with Oriental Lodge, No. 500, F. & A. M., the York 
Rite and the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

Mr. Daggett married Miss Lizette Lothian at New York City 
on October 30, 1901. They have two sons, James Lothian Daggett 
and Robert Frost Daggett, Jr. The family home is at 4904 Wash¬ 
ington Boulevard. 


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OF AFFAIRS 



THOMAS A. DAILY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


THOMAS A. DAILY 

T HOMAS A. DAILY, member of the law firm of Hanna & 

Daily, was born on a farm near Mt. Hope, Kansas, Septem¬ 
ber 9, 1876, son of William Allen and Mariali Elizabeth (Craig) 
Daily, early settlers of Sedgwick County, Kansas. His prelimin¬ 
ary education was obtained in the public schools of Mt. Hope, 
after which he attended the Christian Brothers College at St. 
Joseph, Missouri. In 1893, he removed with his father to Vernon, 
Indiana, his father being a native of Decatur County, Indiana, 
son of Samuel Gates and Julia (Morgan) Daily and grandson of 
Charles and Sarah (Gates) Daily, who settled in Franklin County, 
near Brookville, Indiana in 1812. 

For a period of four years, following his removal to Vernon, 
Mr. Daily, of this sketch, taught school in Jennings County, In¬ 
diana, during which time he also studied law in the offices of the 
late Judge Thomas C. Batchelor at Vernon. In 1899, although 
having been admitted to the practice of law in Indiana two years 
previously, he graduated from Indiana Law School with the 
degree of Bachelor of Laws and in the fall of that year became 
associated with Hon. Charles T. Hanna under the firm name of 
Hanna & Daily, which partnership has continued to this writing, 
with the exception of that time between April 1, 1907, and Novem¬ 
ber 11, 1908, when Judge Hanna sat upon the bench of the Super¬ 
ior Court of Marion County. 

In 1906, Mr. Daily w T as elected a Representative from Marion 
County on the Republican ticket and served in the regular and 
special sessions of the fifty-sixth General Assembly. Upon his 
retirement from this office he was appointed a member of the 
Indiana State Board of Pardons, by the late Governor J. Frank 
Hanly and upon this board served for four years, 1909-13. At the 
expiration of this office he was appointed a trustee of the Indiana 
Reformatory by Governor Samuel Ralston (1916-18) and reap¬ 
pointed by Governor James P. Goodrich (1918-22). He served on 
the committee to relocate the Indiana Reformatory by appoint¬ 
ment from Governor Warren T. McCray, 1922, and in the fall of 
1922 was elected State Senator from Marion County to serve in 
the seventy-third and seventy-fourth sessions of the General As¬ 
sembly, his present term to expire in 1926. 

Mr. Daily is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State and 
American Bar Associations, the Columbia Club, Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, Marion Club, Chamber of Commerce, Sons of the 
Revolution, Sons of Veterans, Society of Indiana Pioneers, Elks, 
Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite and Murat 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine and the Central Christian Church. 

The marriage of Mr. Daily to Miss Mary Bernice Swengel of 
Columbus, Indiana, took place at Indianapolis, November 22,1905. 
There are three children, Wilson Swengel, John Hutchings and 
William Allen. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JAMES A. DAUGHERTY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JAMES A. DAUGHERTY 

TAMES A. DAUGHERTY, son of William T. and Sarah E. 
J ^Daugherty, was born in Shelby County, Indiana, February 2, 
1872. Alien still a small boy, his parents moved to Franklin, 
Indiana, where he attended the public grade schools, and when 
the family moved to Noblesville, Indiana, he attended the high 
school in that town, taking, upon his graduation, the first honors 
of his class. 

Upon leaving high school, Mr. Daugherty came to Indianap¬ 
olis and took a position with the Nordyke & Marmon Company, 
where he remained for twelve years, holding various important 
positions in the accounting, purchasing, and sales departments. 
At the time he left the firm he was in charge of the foreign sales 
and mill supply departments. 

He then became connected with the Atlas Engine Works, at 
that time the largest builders of steam engines and boilers in the 
United States; lie was assistant to the general sales manager at the 
home office for two years, and then was made manager of the 
Chicago district sales office, and was in Chicago about three years. 

Mr. Daugherty then returned to Indianapolis and became 
sales manager of the Irwin Robbins Company, manufacturers of 
automobile bodies, in which business he has been identified up to 
the present time. In 1919 it was found necessary to enlarge the 
business, and Mr. Daugherty was made vice-president and general 
manager of the Robbins Body Corporation, as the firm is now 
known. A re-financing plan was consummated that made it pos¬ 
sible to expand the business to a great extent, and it has undergone 
an exceedingly rapid growth, being the largest manufacturer of 
closed bodies in Indiana. The company is located at Morris and 
Division Streets. 


Mr. Daugherty has always taken an intense interest in civic 
affairs, such as the War Chest, Community Chest, Chamber of 
Commerce, and local labor propositions, and is firm in his belief 
that Indianapolis is one of the best cities in the world and has a 
great future before it. 

He is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Chamber 
of Commerce, Columbia Club, Hoosier Motor Club, Hawthorne 
Tennis Club, Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and Scottish 
Rite Mason. 


On November 9, 1898, Mr. Daugherty married Miss Anna E. 
Wilmington in Indianapolis. There are two daughters: Mrs. 
Edmund H. Emry, nee Mildred Elizabeth, who attended the West¬ 
ern College for AYomen at Oxford, Ohio, and Dorothy G., a stu¬ 
dent at Indiana University. The home is at 127 East Forty-fourth 


Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



W. SCOTT DEMING 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


W. SCOTT DEMING 

w. SCOTT DEMING, vice-president and agency manager of 
the Public Savings Insurance Company of America, is a 
native Hoosier, having been born at New Albany, Indiana, Sep¬ 
tember 11, 1876, son of Theodore and Mary (Dorsey) Deming. 
His early education was obtained in the public schools of the city 
of his birth, after which when but twenty years of age he engaged 
in the life insurance business, with which he has been continuously 
identified to this time. 

The first business association of Mr. Deming was with the 
Prudential Insurance Company and with that company he re¬ 
mained for a period of approximately twenty years or, until 1911, 
when he became manager of the Ordinary Policy Department of 
the Public Savings Insurance Company of America. In this ca¬ 
pacity Mr. Deming served until 1916 when he was advanced to the 
position of supervisor of agents, following which he was, on Janu¬ 
ary 1, 1918, elected second vice-president and agency manager, the 
position he now holds. On January 1, 1923, Mr. Deming was 
elected a director of the company. 

Mr. Deming, as a result of his many years of service in the 
life insurance business, is regarded as an authority on the subject 
and is frequently referred to as such by national insurance publica¬ 
tions. On June 18, 1923, he completed nine years of service with 
the company of which he is now an officer and director and in this 
connection it is of interest to here relate that upon that date 
another officer of the company referred to him as one who “is 
always ready with the proper remedy to give assistance to our 
splendid field force; a man who has always a listening ear for 
agent, superintendent or manager and is prompt with advice to 
strengthen and encourage him to stick it out and win. ’ 

The marriage of Mr. Deming to Miss Zoe Coffman took place 
at Indianapolis, December 11, 1922. Mr. Deming is a member of 
Marion Lodge No. 35, F. & A. M., Scottish Kite and Murat Temple 
of the Mystic Shrine. 


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GEORGE DESAUTELS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GEORGE DESAUTELS 


H E'S a man that does tilings.” Such is a 
brief but forceful characterization con¬ 
cerning George Desautels, vice-president and 
general manager of the Imperial Drop Forge 
Company of Indianapolis. [Mr. Desautels is a 
man who has reached a high position in life 
through hard work and conscientious adher¬ 
ence to duty. 

During the World War a certain general 
known for his ability to command men was 
asked to explain his method. “There is no 
method,” he answered, “but if you would have 
men do as you say, ask of them nothing you 
yourself would not care to do, were you in 
their position.” It is believed by those who 
are intimately acquainted with the man that 
Mr. Decautels is a follower of the General’s 
prescription. He is just that sort of man. lie 
does things, and has men doing things under 
him, and these men are glad to be at his serv¬ 
ice. During the Red Cross and Community 
Chest drives in Indianapolis, Mr. Desautels and 
his team were always near the top of the list. 
The man was highly commended for the spirit 
manifest when troublesome times were the un¬ 
wanted guest of this nation, and on more than 
one occasion took a prominent part in the re¬ 
ception and entertainment of wounded foreign 
soldiers who were guests at Indianapolis. 

Mr. Desautels has had numerous business 
connections in many parts of the United States, 
and his positions have demanded a versatility 
of capacity. In each change we see the man 
stepping one notch higher, acquiring more 
knowledge along a well-defined line, and thor¬ 
oughly equipping himself for the business in 
which he is now engaged. 

George Desautels was born at St. Albans, 
Vermont, September 11, 1882, son of Edward 


•J. and Lucy Desautels. When a boy Mr. De¬ 
sautels showed a marked tendency toward a 
mechanical career. After receiving his educa¬ 
tion in the public schools of his home town, he 
began work for the Page & Strom Forge Com¬ 
pany of Chicopee Falls, [Mass. lie worked for 
this concern a number of years before going to 
Columbus, Ohio, as superintendent of the Co¬ 
lumbus Forge and Iron Company. In 1909 he 
went to Syracuse, New York, as general super¬ 
intendent of the Globe Malleable Iron and 
Steel Company, remaining with that organiza¬ 
tion two years. 

During the following three years Mr. De¬ 
sautels was in the employ of the A. 0. Smith 
Company in Milwaukee, and the Houck Man¬ 
ufacturing Company of Buffalo, New York. 
He was manager of the drop forge department 
of the latter company. 

In 1911 he accepted a position as factory 
manager of the Anderson Drop Forge Com¬ 
pany of Detroit. While in that city he became 
identified with the Hammond Steel Company 
of Syracuse, opened their Detroit office and 
became district sales manager. He spent only 
a short time with the Syracuse concern, how¬ 
ever, for in the latter part of 1915 Mr. De¬ 
sautels came to Indianapolis to organize the 
Imperial Drop Forge Company. The concern 
is located at 510 South Harding Street. 

In 1902 [Mr. Desautels married Miss Lucre- 
tia Lebreck at Chicopee Falls, [Mass. There are 
two sons, Leon and Raymond. The family re¬ 
sides at 4011 Washington Boulevard. 

[Mr. Desautels is a member of the Columbia 
Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, and the 
Highland Golf and Country Club. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



GEORGE M. DICKSON 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GEORGE M. DICKSON 

EORGE M. DICKSON, vice-president of the National Motors 

Corporation, which is a merger of the National Motor Car & 
Vehicle Corporation of Indianapolis and important automobile 
parts manufacturers in the United States, was born at Indianap¬ 
olis, August 15, 1873., son of Andrew and Josephine M. Dickson. 

His early education was obtained in the Indianapolis public 
schools, following the completion of which he entered the whole¬ 
sale dry goods business of D. P. Erwin & Co. He remained with 
that company until 1895, when he became a salesman for the Hay 
& Willits Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of the Outing 
bicycle. 

In 1899 Mr. Dickson became a traveling representative for 
the Kokomo Rubber Company, concentrating on the sales of 
bicycle tires. He was with the Kokomo concern until 1902, when 
he joined the sales staff of the National Motor Vehicle Company. 
He advanced from a position on the sales staff to sales and ad¬ 
vertising manager and in the reorganization of the National Motor 
Vehicle Company as the National Motor Car & Vehicle Corpora¬ 
tion in 3916, was elected president and general manager of the 
corporation. 

In 1922 the National Motor Car & Vehicle Corporation, 
merged with important parts manufacturers, became the National 
Motors Corporation and of this new organization, Mr. Dickson 
became a vice-president. 

Mr. Dickson is a member of the National Automobile Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce and is on several of the important committees of 
that organization. He is also a member of the New York Auto¬ 
mobile Dealers’ Association. 

His clubs include the Columbia Club, the Highland Golf and 
Country Club, the Woodstock Club and the Hoosier Motor Club. 
He has for the past twenty years been a member of the Old Timers 
Club, an organization of men who have been in the automobile 
industry for more than five years. 

On August 15, 1899, Mr. Dickson married Miss Blanch M. 
Pickerill at Indianapolis. They have one son, George M. Dickson, 
Jr., a graduate of Harvard University, who is now engaged in the 
banking business in this city. The family home is at 3914 North 
Delaware Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JAMES A. DIGGLE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JAMES A. DIGGLE 

J AMES A. DIGGLE, plumbing and heating contractor, was born 
at Washington, D. C., July 22, 1862, son of Alfred and Carrie 
(Jacobs) Higgle. His early education was obtained in the public 
schools of Chicago, having been removed to that city by his parents 
when but nine years of age. Upon the completion of his schooling, 
Mr. Higgle entered the plumbing business in the capacity of an 
apprentice to the trade and as such engaged for a period of five 
years. He then became a journeyman, working in Chicago for 
approximately seventeen years until 1901, when he came to Indi¬ 
anapolis to here engage independently in the plumbing and heating 
business. 

Among the buildings of particular prominence in Indianapolis 
upon which Mr. Higgle has executed the contracts are the Masonic 
Temple, Odd Fellows’ Building, Fletcher American National 
Bank Building, Fletcher Trust Building, new addition to the 
Murat Temple, William H. Block Building, Hume Mansur Build¬ 
ing, Stutz Motor Car Company Building, the James Whitcomb 
Riley Memorial Hospital and Power House and many others. 

Mr. Higgle is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club, Athenaeum, Elks, No. 13, and in the 
Masonic fraternity is affiliated with Oriental Lodge, No. 500, F. 
& A. M., the York and Scottish Rite bodies, the Grotto and the 
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

The marriage of Mr. Higgle to Miss Addie H. Hitchcock took 
place at New London, Ohio, December 26, 1886. There is one son, 
Rutherford G. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 



JAMES I. DISSETTE 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 


JAMES I. DISSETTE 


J AMES I. DISSETTE, whose name has been identi¬ 
fied during the last forty years with a number of 
the largest and most substantial industries of Indi¬ 
anapolis, was born in Bradford, Simcoe County, Canada, 
June 13, 1859, son of John E. and Joanna (Chapman) 
Dissette, being the youngest in a family of thirteen 
children. His grandfather, a native of France, was 
living in Ireland at the time of Napoleon’s attempted 
invasion of that country, later making his home in 
Canada. John E. Dissette was born in Ireland, but 
about one hundred years ago acquired from the Brit¬ 
ish Crown the title to the farm in Canada upon which 
the subject of this sketch was born; and this old home 
farm, which has never passed from the posession of 
the family, is now owned by this youngest son. Here 
James I. passed the first thirteen years of his life, 
and upon the removal of his father to Cleveland, Ohio, 
continued his education in the public schools in that 
city and one year at Baldwin University. At fifteen 
years of age he went to work as a printer’s apprentice 
in a newspaper office in Ashland, Ohio, serving an ap¬ 
prenticeship of three years, at the end of which service 
he became a compositor and reporter on the Cleveland 
Herald. That was when James A. Garfield, then a 
dominating character in Ohio as well as in national 
politics, was nominated and elected to the Presidency 
of the United States; and, in looking back over this 
period—1877 to 1880—Mr. Dissette recalls the frequent 
visits of Mr. Garfield to the offices of the Herald and 
his frequent interviews with that great man. 

In 1880 Mr. Dissette joined the clerical force of 
the Cleveland Malleable Iron Company at Cleveland, 
and in July, 1884, was transferred by that firm to In¬ 
dianapolis, and made assistant manager of a new plant, 
the Indianapolis Malleable Iron Company, now a part 
of the National Malleable Castings Company, of this 
city. Mr. Dissette’s identity with the industrial life 
and history of Indianapolis dates from that time. 

In 1888 Mr. Dissette became one of the owners of 
the Indianapolis Foundry Company, and by his energy 
and ability assisted materially in the development of 
this corporation into one of the city’s most prosperous 
industries. In 1909—after twenty years of active and 
continuous service—Mr. Dissette retired from this cor¬ 
poration, and the latter, some years later, was reor¬ 
ganized under another name. 

In the meantime, in 1901, Mr. Dissette organized 
and became the first shareholder of the American Na¬ 
tional Bank of Indianapolis, which subsequently 
merged with and became part of the Fletcher American 
National Bank, and on the board of directors of this 
bank he has served continuously to this time. 


In 1907 Mr. Dissette became a director and mem¬ 
ber of the executive committee of the State Life In¬ 
surance Company, and since September 10, 1912, has 
been its second vice-president. 

In 1911 Mr. Dissette—although previously inter¬ 
ested in an advisory capacity—became the principal 
shareholder and president of the Indianapolis Wire 
Bound Box Company, continuing in this relation until 
April, 1920, at which time he retired to the vice-pres¬ 
idency in favor of his son, Joseph C. Dissette, who ha's 
since that date been the company’s president and 
treasurer. 

In 1913 Mr. Dissette assisted in the formation and 
incorporation of the Federal Foundry Company, of In¬ 
dianapolis, and of this prosperous corporation he has 
been president to the present writing. 

In addition to the foregoing activities, Mr. Dis¬ 
sette was from 1899 to 1902 an important shareholder 
and director in establishing the American Foundry 
Company; from 1900 to 1917 continuously a share¬ 
holder and president of the Realty Investment Com¬ 
pany; from 1905 to 1917 continuously a director of 
the American Hominy Company; and from 1908 to 
1910 a trustee and treasurer of the Methodist Episco¬ 
pal Hospital. 

Mr. Dissette is a member of the Central Avenue 
M. E. Church and the present chairman of its board of 
trustees. He is also a member of the Board of Trade, 
the Columbia Club, the Hoosier and the Indianapolis 
Athletic Clubs; and in the Masonic fraternity is a 
member of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Key¬ 
stone Chapter and Raper Commandery Knights Templar 
of the York Rite, and Murat Temple A. A. O. N. M. S,; 
his Blue Lodge membership is in Pentalpha Lodge 564, 
in which lodge he was made a Master Mason. 

The marriage of Mr. Dissette to Miss Grace Lois 
Wilcox, of Akron, Ohio, took place in that city De¬ 
cember 31, 1885. Mrs. Dissette died twenty years 
later, August 23, 1905, the mother of three children: 
John W., Joseph C., and Anna Lois, now Mrs. Leslie 
S. Lee, of Detroit, Michigan. On November 4, 1907, 
Mr. Dissette married Miss Alice DePree, of Grand 
Rapids, Michigan, and to this union have been born 
two children: Mary Eunice and Alice Joanna. At the 
entrance of this country into the World War, Mr. Dis¬ 
sette’s two sons volunteered and enlisted, John W. be¬ 
coming a captain in the aviation service at Bolling 
Field, Washington, D. C., and Joseph C. becoming a 
first lieutenant in infantry at Camp Pike, Little Rock, 
Arkansas. 

The Dissette family residence is at 3176 North 
Pennsylvania Street. 


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HUGH DOUGHERTY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HUGH DOUGHERTY 


UGH DOUGHERTY, vice-president of the 
Fletcher Savings & Trust Company and 
for many years prominently identified with the 
commercial and financial life of Indianapolis, 
was born in Darke County, Ohio, July 28, 1844. 
His early educational advantages were but 
those afforded by the common schools of the 
locality of his birth, although it is evident that 
he made good use of his limited scholastic op¬ 
portunities, for, at the age of seventeen years, 
after passing the required examination, he ob¬ 
tained a teacher’s license and taught, for one 
term, in a district school of his native county. 
On July 26, 1862, Mr. Daugherty enlisted as a 
private in Company F, 94th Ohio Volunteers 
Infantry, which was later assigned to the Army 
of the Potomac and which participated in the 
battles of Richmond, Perryville and Stone 
River. In the last mentioned engagement, Mr. 
Dougherty was captured by the enemy, was 
paroled at once and sent to Camp Chase, where 
he became very ill and as a result of which he 
was, the following May, honorably discharged 
from the army on account of disability. Ilis 
continued interest in his old comrades in arms 
is indicated by his membership in the Grand 
Army of the Republic. 

Upon the termination of his service as a sol¬ 
dier in the Union Army, Mr. Dougherty re¬ 
turned to the parental home, taught school one 
year and was Deputy County Recorder of 
Darke County until 1865, when he went to 
Bluffton, Indiana, there to enter the employe 
of an uncle, John Studabaker, who was engaged 
in the grain commission trade. This uncle was 
also the owner of the Exchange Bank of Bluff- 
ton, which Mr. Dougherty soon entered in a 
clerical capacity but in which he eventually be¬ 
came a partner and of which he continued an 
executive officer for many years. In 1888 he 
became president of the Studabaker Bank, as 
it is now known, and for a period of sixteen 
years continued to serve in that capacity. In 
1904 he resigned the office to come to Indian¬ 
apolis and here assume the presidency of the 
Marion Trust Company of Indianapolis, which 
position he continuously held until the merger 
of that institution with the Fletcher Savings 
& Trust Company, of which latter institution, 
since the merger in 1912, he has continuously 
been a vice-president. 

Mr. Dougherty is generally recognized as 
a leader in every undertaking with which he is 


identified. AVhen the United Telephone Com¬ 
pany—one of the first so-called independent 
companies—was organized in 1896 with a cap¬ 
ital of $300,000 he became its president and in 
that capacity served until 1904. Incidentally, 
lie was one of the leaders in the National Asso¬ 
ciation, by means of which the independent 
companies were for so many years able to hold 
their own against the encroachment of larger 
companies with comparatively unlimited re¬ 
sources. In fact, Mr. Dougherty was one of 
those upon the committee to fight the suit 
brought by the Bell Telephone Company 
against the independent companies, contending 
that the smaller companies were infringing 
upon its patents. The case was decided in fa¬ 
vor of the independent companies after about 
five years of the most expensive litigation. 
Shortly before the close of the case mentioned, 
Air. Dougherty was chosen president of the 
National Association and of him it has since 
been said that his efforts in connection with the 
association were productive of inestimable 
value, in promoting the efficiency of a public 
utility which probably affects as many people 
of different classes as any one thing. 

In politics, Air. Dougherty has long been 
actively identified with the affairs of the Dem¬ 
ocratic Party. While a resident of Wells 
County he was a member of the State Exec¬ 
utive Committee from 1890 to 1896 and was a 
delegate to the National Convention of 1884, 
1892, 1896 and 1900. In 1871, 1872 and 1873 
he represented his district in the State Senate. 

In addition to these activities, Air. Dough¬ 
erty has given much time and energy to charit¬ 
able and philanthropic work. He has served 
on the board of trustees of the Indiana Soldiers 
and Sailors Orphan Home; has been president 
of the board of trustees of DePauw University 
since 1905 to this writing and in religious en¬ 
terprises, as a member of the Alethodist Episco¬ 
pal Church, has ever been ready and willing to 
serve in either public or private capacity. 

Air. Dougherty is a member of the Chamber 
of Commerce, University Club, Art Association 
of Indianapolis, Country Club of Indianapolis, 
Athenffium and the Indiana Democratic Club. 

The marriage of Air. Dougherty to Aliss 
Emma G. Gilliand of Indianapolis took place at 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 25, 1877. 

There is one daughter, Airs. Charles AV. Jewett, 
(Elizabeth). 



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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



BRANDT C. DOWNEY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


BRANDT C. DOWNEY 

DRANDT C. DO AVNE Y, vice-president of the National City 

Bank, son of William B. and Florinda (Woods) Downey, was 
born February 17, 1873, in Indianapolis. After attending the 
public schools in this city Mr. Downey matriculated at Wabash 
College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he remained from Sep¬ 
tember, 1892, to January 1, 1891. He left school to take a position 
with the Bradstreet Company and remained with that concern 
one year. He then became assistant principal of West Newton 
high school and remained during the scholastic years 1895 and 
1896. Leaving his high school work, Mr. Downey returned to the 
Bradstreet Company with whom he worked untii 1900, except for 
a short enlistment in Company D of the 158tli Infantry. This 
was during the Spanish-American war. He held a Major’s com¬ 
mission in the Indiana Militia from 1917 to 1921. 

Upon severing connections with the Bradstreet Company, Mr. 
Downey became identified with the American National bank. His 
early work with this business was in the nature of bookkeeping. 
He held various other positions, however, and was assistant cashier 
from 1906 to 1909. He went to the Continental National bank in 
1909 and remained there as cashier until 1912. From 1914 to 1921, 
Mr. Downey was president of the Indiana State bank and its 
successor, the Commercial National bank. He voluntarily relin¬ 
quished the office of president in 1921 to new interests. He was 
made vice-president and cashier at that time, which positions he 
held until July 1, 1923 when he became vice-president of the Na¬ 
tional City Bank, that institution having, on the date last men¬ 
tioned, taken over the interests of the Commercial National Ban]-:. 

Mr. Downey has been prominent in fraternal organization 
work during his lifetime, being a Past Master of the Ancient 
Landmarks No. 319, of the F. & A. M.; Past High Priest, Keystone 
Chapter No. 6, R. A. M.; Past Eminent Commander, Raper Com- 
mandery No. 1, Knights Templar; Past Sovereign Prince, Sariah 
Council, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; and a 33rd degree mem¬ 
ber Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
1917. Mr. Downey has also been active in church work and at 
the present time is a trustee of the Central Avenue Methodist 
Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Exchange Club, Lions 
Club, Columbia Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Riverside Golf 
Club’ Hoosier Square and Compass Club, Indianapolis Chamber 
of Commerce and of the Delta Tan Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Downey married Miss Nellie M. Bowman, June 25, 1902, 
in Indianapolis. To them have been born two sons, Brandt C., 
Jr., whose untimely death occurred October 12, 1922, when but 
eleven years old, and Bowman, age six years. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



CHARLES S. DRAKE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CHARLES S. DRAKE 

^HARLES S. DRAKE, president of the Empire Life & Acci¬ 
dent Insurance Company, was born at Dallas, Paulding, 
County, Georgia, July 6, 1873, son of Benjamin T. and Sarah A. 
(Bones) Drake. His early education was obtained in the public 
schools of Dallas, Georgia, after which he attended Normal High 
School at Acworth, Georgia. 

At the age of nineteen Mr. Drake entered the real estate of¬ 
fice of B. S. Drake & Company at Atlanta, Geor gia, and for two 
years was in charge of the rental department of that company. 
In 3894, at the time of the organization of the Fulton Loan & 
Investment Company, Mr. Drake became secretary of the com¬ 
pany and was placed in charge of the branch at Macon, Georgia. 
In this capacity he remained for two years, when he returned to 
Atlanta and became associated with the Metropolitan Life Insur ¬ 
ance Company. His untiring efforts with this organization were 
rewarded two years later when he was appointed assistant superin¬ 
tendent of the Atlanta District of the company. 

Upon the conclusion of this work in 1899, Mr. Drake accepted 
a position with the Industrial Life and Health Insurance Com¬ 
pany at Atlanta as superintendent of the Atlanta District, where 
he continued for three years until moved to Louisville, Kentucky 
as state superintendent. 

In 1901 Mr. Drake organized the Kentucky Central Life & 
Accident Insurance Company and, as secretary and treasurer, con¬ 
ducted the affairs of the company until 3908 when he came to 
Indianapolis and here organized the Empire Health and Accident 
Insurance Company, of which he has continuously been the presi¬ 
dent, although in February, 1922, the company underwent a reor¬ 
ganization and the name changed to the Empire Life and Accident 
Insurance Company. 

Although the company of which Mr. Drake is the head has 
been in existence but a comparatively short length of time, it 
has experienced a remarkable and almost phenomenal growth. 
Its business reaches out into every part of the state of Indiana 
and, while the home state has been its principal field of activity, 
it is not restricted to any special territory. 

Mr. Drake is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of 
Murat Temple, Republican in politics, a member of the Southern 
Industrial Insurance Conference, the Health and Accident Under¬ 
writers, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and the Colum¬ 
bia Club. His religious affiliation is with the First, Baptist 
Church and for two years served as president of the First Baptist 
Brotherhood. 


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Photograph by F. BeGueldre — Chicago 

FRED S. DUESENBERG 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRED S. DUESENBERG 


I NDIANAPOLIS is, generally speaking, an 
automobile town. In the manufacture of 
cars it is not far behind any other city, and ever 
since the building of the Indianapolis Motor 
Speedway it has been the accepted center of 
gravity in the realm of automobile racing. 
Among the men who have given this latter pre¬ 
eminence to Indianapolis is Fred S. Duesen- 
berg, one of the greatest automotive engineers 
in the world today, and at the present time 
chief engineer of the Duesenberg Automobile 
and Motors Company. Mr. Duesenberg is a 
builder of racing and pleasure cars, and the 
latest offering he has made the automobile 
world is being manufactured in Indianapolis 
now, the Duesenberg Straight Eight. 

Fred S. Duesenberg, a son of Conrad and 
Kora Duesenberg, was born December 6, 1877, 
in Lippe, Germany, and came to the United 
States in 1885. He was reared on a farm. In 
1898, Mr. Duesenberg took up racing and has 
been closely identified with it since that time. 
Bicycle racing was just becoming popular, and 
in order to have a machine pace him, Mr. Due¬ 
senberg built a racing motorcycle. In 1902, 
after achieving more than ordinary success 
with his motorcycle, Mr. Duesenberg en¬ 
tered the automobile business with T. B. Jef¬ 
fery, and continued in the manufacture and 
sales end of this business for several years. 
The Pugh motor boats, the first craft of any 
kind to travel more than sixty miles an hour 
in water, were equipped with twelve-cylinder 
motors, the work of Air. Duesenberg. 

Special racing cars were coming into prom¬ 
inence about this time and were being devel¬ 
oped in small cylinder displacements. Duesen¬ 


berg motors were gradually coming to the 
front. During the war a considerable number 
were sold to the United States government for 
sub-chasers, and many more built especially for 
Italy, Russia and England. 

Among other notable achievements for 
Mr. Duesenberg is the distinction of having 
built the four largest aviation motors ever 
constructed—sixteen cylinder, 850 horse-pow¬ 
er. Shortly after these motors were completed 
Mr. Duesenberg devoted his time to the per¬ 
fection of the straight-eight, and with this and 
other motors Duesenberg cars have succeeded 
in breaking sixty-six world’s records. The first 
car that ever traveled faster than 155 miles an 
hour was of Duesenberg construction, and with 
so many marks made, Mr. Duesenberg began 
his work on a stock car. 

lie continued racing, however, and in 1921 
sent four cars to the famous Grand Prix race 
near Le Mans, France, and for the first time in 
the history of the race an American car was 
victorious. Jimmy Murphy, noted pilot at the 
wheel of a Duesenberg, was the winner, and he 
broke all existing French records in taking the 
race. It was a victory for America, for Duesen¬ 
berg, for Indianapolis. Two other Duesenbergs 
placed fourth and sixth in the race. 

Although Mr. Duesenberg has yet to be vic¬ 
torious in the famous 500-mile race in Indian¬ 
apolis, his cars have always finished well. 

Mr. Duesenberg married Miss Isle Denny, 
April 27, 1913, in Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. and 
Mrs. Duesenberg reside at 3316 Fall Creek 
Boulevard. The business location is at Wash¬ 
ington and Harding Streets. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



LUKE W. DUFFEY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


LUKE W. DUFFEY 


T UKE W. DUFFEY, son of Eli F. and 
1 —j Nancy J. Dnffey, was born October 24, 
1879, at Indianapolis, Indiana; worked his way 
through the Central Normal College at Dan¬ 
ville, Indiana, and in 1900 was admitted to the 
Indiana bar. In 1901 Mr. Dnffey organized a 
real estate company at Plainfield, Indiana, 
which, through the sale of various tracts of 
property, laid out approximately all of the 
east half of that city and five of the original 
additions to the Indianapolis suburb known as 
Ben Davis, located on West Washington Street, 
where Indianapolis is making a most remark¬ 
able growth. In 1910 the Luke W. Dnffey 
Farm Sales Company was organized at 
Indianapolis. 

So far from being born in an aristocratic 
element, he was born in patrimony of good 
health and a desire to work, which was put to 
an early and strenuous test. As a good title- 
man he became interested in the real estate 
business and at this time is the owner of the 
Luke W. Dnffey Farm Sales Company, a real 
estate organization not to be excelled for serv¬ 
ice in its particular scope in the state of Indi¬ 
ana. His election to the House of Representa¬ 
tives in 1917, and later, in 1919, to the Senate, 
has been a fitting testimony of the regard in 
which this community holds him. 

Mr. Dnffey has been tremendously instru¬ 
mental in the creation of our state highway 
laws. His work as a joint author of the State 
Highway Commission Law, which is said to be 
the best and most workable measure of its kind 
in the Union, and his authorship of a corrected 
Highway Commission Road Law, which he 
placed on the statute books during his service 
in the Senate session of 1919, clearly manifests 
the constructiveness of his legislative service 
and ability. 

In connection with Mr. Dnffey’s interest in 
state highway work, it is of interest to know 
that during 1915 and 1916 he lectured in ap¬ 
proximately seventy-five counties of the state 
in an effort to organize what is now known as 
the Hoosier Motor Club and to crystalize sen¬ 
timent favorable to the creation of a State 
Highway Department. In 1916 he was also in¬ 


strumental in bringing Woodrow Wilson to this 
city as a sponsor for the passage of our present 
State Highway Law. 

In his fight for the creation of a Live Stock 
Commission or Sanitary Board Law to control 
all herd pillaging and vicious live stock dis¬ 
eases, Mr. Dnffey has been credited by his col¬ 
leagues with an ability to talk their “butter 
and egg’’ language more clearly and with a 
keener insight than any other member of the 
legislature hailing from the city districts. 

During the war Mr. Dnffey was a civilian 
member for Indiana of the Government Trans¬ 
port Service, working under military orders to 
maintain a steady stream of motor troop trains 
eastward to tidewater points of embarkation. 
By reason of a court finding early in 1917 de¬ 
claring the State Highway Commission Law 
unconstitutional, Mr. Duffey was appointed by 
Governor Goodrich to act in this capacity in 
the place of the State Highway Department, 
which had been designated by the War De¬ 
partment to handle all motor convoy or trans¬ 
port matters throughout the United States. In 
addition to this work, he was Chief Registrar of 
the State House District and was a captain in 
Liberty Loan work. 

Mr. Duffey is a member of the National, 
Indiana, and Indianapolis Real Estate Boards, 
Chamber of Commerce, Indiana Bar Associa¬ 
tion, Columbia Club, Marion Club, Hoosier 
Athletic Club, Hoosier Motor Club, Benevolent 
Order of Elks, and is a Mason. He is an ex¬ 
president from Indiana of the Federal Highway 
Council, which was organized through the aid 
of the late President Roosevelt, and an ex-mem¬ 
ber of the Roads Committee of the United 
States Chamber of Commerce, which was in¬ 
strumental in passing the Federal Aid Road 
Law under which federal aid is administered 
to State Highway Departments. 

In 1900 Mr. Duffey married Miss Lottie M. 
Breedlove of Plainfield, Indiana. There were 
three daughters: Estelle Irene, Dessie Dee, and 
Wilma Lee. On February 18, 1919, Mr. Duffey 
married Miss Mary Amos of Rushville, Indiana. 
The residence is at 2108 North Meridian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



SAMUEL 0. DUNGAN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


SAMUEL 0. DUNGAN 

C AMUEL 0. DUNGAN, son of Stephen W. and Martha Jane 
^ (Porterfield) Dnngan, was born May 16, 1871, near Franklin. 
Indiana, in a little log house in Johnson County, about twenty 
miles from Indianapolis. It was on the Dnngan farm, which was 
entered from the government by his grandfather, Elisha Dnngan, 
who drove from Virginia and landed in Indianapolis in 1827, 
where he lived for two years, before settling in Johnson County. 
Samuel O. Dnngan now owns the farm, which has been always the 
property of some member of the Dnngan family. 

Mr. Dnngan lived on this farm until twenty years of age. He 
received a country school education near his home and spent five 
years in Franklin College. Later Mr. Dnngan attended the De¬ 
troit Business University, from which he was graduated. 

In June, 1891, Mr. Dnngan married Miss Pearl Polk, only 
daughter of James T. Polk, of Greenwood, Indiana, and about two 
years later entered the milk business with his father-in-law in 
Indianapolis. He drove the first milk wagon in Indianapolis, and 
today he is president and general manager of the company, the 
Polk Sanitary Milk Company. This company now has ninety 
wagons delivering bottled milk to twenty-five thousand Indianap¬ 
olis families. 

In addition to his business connection with the Polk Com¬ 
pany, Mr. Dnngan is closely identified with many other interests, 
being a director in several financial institutons. He s a member 
of Oriental Lodge, Scottish and York Rite Masons, Mystic Shrine, 
Knights of Pythias No. 1, Columbia Club, Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, Rotary Club, Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce, 
Marion Club, director of Indianapolis Branch, Y. M. C. A., and 
an elder in the Memorial Presbyterian Church. 

There are two children in the Dnngan family—a daughter, 
Helen Louise, now Mrs. Lester LeFeber, of Milwaukee, and a son, 
James Duane, who is in business with his father. Mr. Dnngan 
owns one of the finer homes of the city, located at 2/02 Suther¬ 
land Avenue. 

The business offices of Mr. Dnngan are at 1100 East Fif¬ 
teenth Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



FRANK A. DUNLOP 


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FRANK A. DUNLOP 

J7RANK A. DUNLOP, partner in the firm of Dunlop & Holte¬ 
gel, was born in Marion County, Indiana. October 14, 1S74 
son of Robert M. and Eliza Dunlop. His early education was ob¬ 
tained in the public schools of Marion County, after which, when 
but nineteen years of age, he entered the employ of Mr. J. S. Cruse, 
to engage in the real estate and insurance business. Upon the 
incorporation of the J. S. Cruse Realty Company, he became 
secretary of the organization, in which capacity he served until 
May, 1913, when he became the company’s vice-president. 

During the latter part of December, 1915, Mr. Dunlop, 
together with Mr. Louis C. Holtegel, who was at that time secretary 
of the J. S. Cruse Realty Company and who had been associated 
with that company for a period of fourteen years, formed a part¬ 
nership under the name of Dunlop & Holtegel to engage in the real 
estate and insurance business, and to this partnership Mr. Dunlop 
has given untiringly of his time and energy to this writing. The 
annual rental business of the firm is one of the largest in the 
state. 

Mr. Dunlop is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, Kiwanis Club, Oriental Lodge No. 500, F. & A. M., De 
Molav Commanders and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

On September 23, 1896, Mr. Dunlop married Miss E. Garrett 
Brown at Indianapolis. There is one daughter, Mrs. IV. Harrison 
Marsh, nee Ruth Hildred. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlop reside at 4572 
Guilford Avenue. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



C. S. EAGLESFIELD 


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CALEB SCUDDER EAGLESFIELD 

^ALEB SCUDDER EAGLESFIELD, manufacturer, presi¬ 
dent of tlie Eaglesfield Hardwood Flooring Company, was 
born in Eaglesfield, Clay County, Indiana, March 14, 1860, son of 
William and Margaret Elizabeth (Townsend) Eaglesfield. The 
Eaglesfield family traces its lineage to English origin, the name 
being one of special prominence in connection with the history of 
famous old Queens College, Oxford, England. 

Mr. Eaglesfield’s father was one of the pioneers of Butler 
County, Ohio, and when a child became the foster son of an aunt 
and uncle, Caleb and Mary (Gardner) Scudder. The elder Eagles¬ 
field and his foster parents came to Indianapolis in 1821, where lie 
was the first child to be baptized in the First Presbyterian Church. 
Early in life he became interested in the saw mill and lumber 
business in Indianapolis, and about 1848 moved to Clay County, 
Indiana. 

Caleb Scudder Eaglesfield of this review was educated in the 
public schools of Terre Haute, Indiana. After coming to Indi¬ 
anapolis in 1892, he became associated with T. W. Stewart, form¬ 
ing the Eaglesfield-Stewart Company, manufacturers of hard¬ 
wood flooring and parquetry. Later the interest of Mr. Stewart 
was acquired by Mr. Eaglesfield and the firm name changed to 
the Eaglesfield Hardwood Flooring Company. This firm is one 
of the leaders in this business in the Central West. 

The marriage of Mr. Eaglesfield to Miss Cora M. LaRue oc¬ 
curred October 12, 1889. They have four children: Helen Isabell 
Eaglesfield, Thomas Russell Eaglesfield, John LaRue Eaglesfield 
and William Eaglesfield. The family home is at 3919 North 
Delaware Street. 

Mr. Eaglesfield is a member of the Columbia Club, the Indi¬ 
anapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, and the Indi¬ 
anapolis Athletic Club. 


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DR. SAMUEL E. EARP 


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SAMUEL EVINGSTON EARP 


AMUEL EVINGSTON EARP, M. S., M. L„ M. D„ 
for many years prominently identified with the 
medical profession of Indianapolis and at this time 
Editor-in-Chief of the Indianapolis Medical Journal, was 
bom at Lebanon, Illinois, December 19, 1858, son of 
Bev. Joseph and Margaret E. (Walls) Earp, natives 
respectively of Derby and London, England. His early 
education was obtained at the various places to which 
his father was assigned as pastor, after which he se¬ 
cured his literary training in the high school at Alton, 
Illinois, at Shurtleff College in Upper Alton, Illinois, 
and in McKendree College at Lebanon, Illinois, from 
which latter institution he was graduated in 1879. Mean¬ 
while, he had begun the study of medicine in 1874, 
under Dr. C. M. Smith, of Alton, Illinois, and in 1879 
studied under Dr. Gonsalvo C. Smythe of Greeneastle, 
Indiana. In 1882, he was graduated from the Central 
College of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis with 
the degree of Doctor of Medicine and at once began the 
actual practice of medicine in this city where he has 
since remained and in which he has achieved a decidedly 
favorable reputation in the calling of his choice. 

The year of his graduation from medical college Dr. 
Earp became a member of the faculty of the Central 
College of Physicians and Surgeons and with that insti¬ 
tution was continuously identified in an educational ca¬ 
pacity until 1902. He was first engaged as Professor 
of Chemistry and Toxicology, later was in the depart¬ 
ment of Materia Medical and Therapeutics, and in 1899 
Avas elected Professor of the Principles and Practice of 
Medicine and Sanitary Science. During eight years of 
the period just mentioned Dr. Earp Avas also secretary 
and dean of the college. 

The Avork of Dr. Earp as an educator has not, Iioav- 
ever, been confined to the Central College of Physicians 
and Surgeons. For seven years he was Professor of 
Materia Medica and Therapeutics and Dean of the Cen¬ 
tral College of Dentistry and for a number of years 
has been one of the corps of instructors at St. Vincent’s 
Training School for Nurses, and has lectured at Dea¬ 
coness, Methodist and City Hospital schools. In July, 
1906, lie Avas elected Professor of the Practice of Medi¬ 
cine in the State College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
affiliated with the University of Indiana, and these posi¬ 
tions he held until 1908. When there was an amalga¬ 
mation of the State College and the Indiana Medical 
College, Avith the title Indiana University School of 
Medicine, Dr. Earp became Clinical professor of medi¬ 
cine, which position he hoav holds. For tAvo years he 
Avas chemist for the Board of Health of the City of 
Indianapolis; for four years he was a member of the 
Board of Health of the City of Indianapolis and from 
1890 to 1897 acted as the executive officer of that body 
to AA'hich he was unanimously elected. He Avas later a 
member of the Board of Public Health and Charities. 
He was police and fire surgeon for tAvo consecutive 
terms. 

Dr. Earp is on the Consulting Staff of the Indianap¬ 
olis City Dispensary, Indianapolis City Hospital, Pro¬ 
testant Deaconess Hospital, Bobert Long Hospital and 
the St. Vincent ’s Hospital. He is a contributor to a 
number of medical journals and is frequently quoted 
in text-books for original Avork in chemistry. His ser¬ 


vice to the profession outside of his work as a teacher 
have been considerable, especially as editor of profes¬ 
sional^ journals. He is also a member of the Staff of 
the Western Medical Times, Denver, Colo. He Avas the 
first editor of the “Medical and Surgical Monitor,” 
AAhich Avas inaugurated in June, 1898, and this position 
he held until November, 1903, when he resigned his 
position to become editor of the “Central States Medi¬ 
cal Magazine.” When, in November, 1905, the Medi¬ 
cal and Surgical Monitor and the Central States Medi¬ 
cal Magazine were amalgamated under the title of ‘ ‘ Cen¬ 
tral States Medical Monitor,” Dr. Earp became the 
editor-in-chief and this position he has continuously 
held until this writing, although in 1909 the Central 
States Medical Monitor merged with the Indiana Medi¬ 
cal Journal into what has since been knoAvn as the 
Indianapolis Medical Journal, with Dr. Earp as Editor- 
in-Chief. Since 1914, to this writing, Dr. Earp has been 
president of the Indianapolis Historical Society. 

On November 25, 1915, President WoodroAv Wilson 
appointed Dr. Earp Chairman of the United States Medi¬ 
cal Advisory Board, No. 56, Division 1, and in this 
service continued until April 6, 1919. This board Avas 
composed of fourteen specialists in their respective lines 
and to it local boards referred all doubtful cases. Of 
the 58,418 men sent to camp by this board, less than 
six per cent, were rejected and in this connection it is 
of interest to here note that only three states in the 
United States sent men to camp with feA\ T er rejections 
upon arrival than did Indiana. When discharged from 
the service at the close of the war Dr. Earp received 
from E. II. CroAA'der, Provost Marshall General, the 
f ollOAving: 

“You have performed a stupendous task, you have 
performed it loyally, unselfishly and Avell. But you 
have done more. You have the ground work for a new 
ideal in democracy. You have taught and shoAvn the 
value and the possibilities of sympathetic and under¬ 
standing co-operation. You have discovered and vindi¬ 
cated a neAV altruism, you have crystallized an ideal and 
made of it a system. In these closing Avords I add my 
lieartful praise to the grateful thanks of America. ’ ’ 

During the World War Dr. Earp Avas also a member 
of the Volunteer Medical Service Corp, Council of Na¬ 
tional Defense. 

Dr. Earp is a member of the Indianapolis Medical 
Society, of AA'hich he Avas president in 1910, Indiana 
State Medical Association, of which he is a counselor 
for the Seventh District, American Medical Association, 
Indianapolis Academy of Science, Indiana Historical So¬ 
ciety of Applied Psychology, District of Columbia, Phi 
Beta Pi college fraternity, of which for five years he 
AA'as president of the Indiana Alumni Association, 
Knights of Pythias, of which he is a Past Deputy 
Grand Chancellor, and Ancient Landmarks, No. 319, 
F. & A. M., Scottish Bite and the Murat Temple of the 
Mystic Shrine. On March 15, 1916, Dr. Earp received 
the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from the 
Indianapolis University School of Medicine. 

The marriage of Dr. Earp to Miss Evelyn M. Byers 
took place June 29, 1898, at Indianapolis. There are 
tAvo sons, Evanson B. and Leon S. The family residence 
is at 1121 North Illinois Street. 



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CHARLES ROLTARE EGGLESTON 


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CHARLES ROLTARE EGGLESTON 


C HARLES ROLTARE EGGLESTON, man- 
ager of B. F. Keith’s Theater, in Indian¬ 
apolis, Indiana, and widely known as a magi¬ 
cian, was born in Ottumwa, Iowa. He is one 
of two sons born to William Henry Eggleston 
and Myra II. (Ober) Eggleston. ITis grand¬ 
parents were pioneers in the Hoosier State, 
settling in Greensburg, Indiana. During the 
Civil War, John N. Eggleston, his grandfather, 
and William Henry Eggleston, his father, en¬ 
listed under the flag of Indiana and fought 
side by side as members of Company A, Sixty- 
eighth Indiana Volunteers. 

From early boyhood, Charles Roltare Eg¬ 
gleston, the subject of this sketch, has been 
associated with the theatrical profession; be¬ 
ginning in 1890 with a repertory company and 
next as a magician at the Chicago World’s 
Fair. Later he was a member of the Alabama 
Minstrels and next became a Shakespearean 
actor. In 1914, after nearly fifteen years in the 
role of a professional magician, under the title 
“Roltare, The Magician,” he retired from the 

stage to become a theater manager. 

At times during his stage career, while not 
engaged in production work or on tour, he pre¬ 
sented his magical work on the Lyceum and 
Chautauqua circuits and at one time main¬ 
tained a theatrical booking office in New York 
City, where he arranged bookings and enter¬ 
tainments for summer parks and fairs. 

To Mr. Eggleston fell the distinction of be¬ 
ing the first entertainer to be sent by the 
American government to the Panama Canal 
zone when the Government took over the work 
of building the canal. On July 4, 1909, he 
started the first entertainments in the Y. M C. 
A. Club houses in the Zone, and later arranged 
with the Y. M. C. A. secretaries and Govern¬ 
ment officials, to send other entertainers to 
the Canal Zone to entertain the American em¬ 
ployees during the building of the canal. 

Upon his return to the United States, after 
several weeks spent in study of the entertain¬ 
ment problems which confronted the officers, 
he gave illustrated lectures on the work of the 
American employees and the native life of 
Panama. 

In 1910, when aviation was in its early 
stages, Mr. Martin Beck, President of the Or- 


pheum Circuit of vaudeville theatres, secured 
from Glenn Curtiss one of the first aeroplanes 
to make a successful flight and turned it over 
to Mr. Eggleston, who made a tour of the 
vaudeville theaters, exhibiting the machine 
and giving illustrated lecture on its accom¬ 
plishments. 

In 1914 Mr. Eggleston gave up the stage to 
accept the appointment as manager of the Al¬ 
legheny Theater and the Grand Opera House, 
two vaudeville theaters in Philadelphia, Penn¬ 
sylvania. In 1916 he was transferred to In¬ 
dianapolis to assume charge of B. F. Keith’s 
theater in this city. 

During the World War, President Wood- 
row Wilson appointed Mr. Eggleston Chairman 
of the “Four-Minute-Men,” for Indianapolis 
and Marion County. Through this organization 
scores of prominent Indianapolis men and 
women were “drafted” as public speakers and 
gave much needed assistance in behalf of the 
many local war activities, speaking in theaters, 
stores, shops, churches and factories. 

Ever since Mr. Eggleston’s advent in Indi¬ 
anapolis he has been active in all civic move¬ 
ments, taking his place with other citizens in 
the affairs of the community. 

Because of his interest in, and unfailing 
courtesy to, the members of the theatrical pro¬ 
fession, he is known as the “Prince of Man¬ 
agers.” To the public he has endeared him¬ 
self for the same courteous consideration. 

For many years Mr. Eggleston has been act¬ 
ive in Masonic work. He is a member of Park 
Lodge, No. 516 F. & A. M., New York City; he 
is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason, of In¬ 
dianapolis, and a member of Murat Temple, 
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. His clubs in¬ 
clude the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Columbia 
Club, Advertisers Club of Indianapolis, the Ro¬ 
tary Club. He is past-president of the Society 
of American Magicians, a member of Benjamin 
Harrison Camp, Sons of Veterans, and an ar¬ 
dent “out-door” sportsman. His writings on 
stage life and customs, which appear from time 
to time in magazines and newspapers, are 
widely read and enjoyed. 

On June 15, 1918, Charles Roltare Eggleston 
and Miss Elizabeth Line Primrose, of Philadel¬ 
phia, Pennsylvania, were married. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



ROBERT ELLIOTT 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ROBERT ELLIOTT 

p^OBERT ELLIOTT, president of the Standard Dry Kiln Com¬ 
pany, was born at Detroit, Michigan, February 11, 1859, son 
of Robert Elliott and Isabella (Robinson) Elliott. His early 
education was obtained in the public schools of the city of his 
birth, after which, as a young man, he became connected with the 
Huyatt & Smith Manufacturing Company. Later he was in the 
employ of the Detroit Blower Company and here it was that he 
gained a technical knowledge of the dry kiln business, especially 
the manufacturing of machines for drying lumber and clay 
products. 

In 1887, as a result of the financial failure of the Detroit 
Blower Company, Mr. Elliott removed to Louisville, Kentucky, 
where, together with Mr. A. T. Bemis, he started a dry kiln busi¬ 
ness on an independent scale. This he did in the face of predic¬ 
tions that the undertaking would be a failure, but instead, in view 
of his long and thorough experience, the business was a success 
from the beginning. In 1890 the company was incorporated with 
a capital of $50,000. Four years later, in order to obtain a more 
central location, the plant was moved to Indianapolis. Here the 
company has grown and prospered under Mr. Elliott’s direction, 
although within the last three or four years his son, Robert C. 
Elliott, has assumed the active management of the organization. 

In addition to his interest in the Standard Dry Kiln Com¬ 
pany, Mr. Elliott is also vice-president of the Brown-Huffstetter 
Sand Company and president of the Western Machine Works. 
He has kept in close touch with civic and social affairs of Indi¬ 
anapolis and is a member of many of the more important organiza¬ 
tions of the city. These include the Chamber of Commerce, the 
Columbia Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Woodstock 
Club, and the Rotary Club. In the Masonic order he is a Knights 
Templar, Shriner of the Murat Temple, and a 32nd degree Scottish 
Rite Mason. 

The marriage of Mr. Elliott to Miss Anna Schaefer occurred 
at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1889. There are three children: Robert 
C., Amy Louise and Edward -I. The family resides at the Spink 
Arms. 


INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



BRODEHURST ELSEY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


BRODEHURST ELSEY 

DRODEHLLRST ELSEY, son of Dr. John H. and Mary Ellen 
(Lovelace) Elsey, was born at Bardwell, Kentucky, October 
13, 1878. 

After completing liis education Mr. Elsey spent three years 
teaching in his native state. He came to Indianapolis in 1900 and 
engaged in accounting and actuarial work, which he followed about 
four years. In 1901 he became interested in the manufacture of 
gloves and is now secretary and treasurer of the Indianapolis 
Glove Company. 

Mr. Elsey is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com¬ 
merce; the Indianapolis Board of Trade, being on the finance 
committee of the Board of Governors of that organization; he is 
president of the National Cotton Cloth Glove Manufacturers’ As¬ 
sociation of America; president of the Christamore College Set¬ 
tlement Association, and trustee of the First Baptist Church. He 
is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner. 

In politics Mr. Elsey is a Democrat. Among the social or¬ 
ganizations of which he is a member are included the Country 

c") 

Club, the Hoosier Athletic Club, the Century Club and the South¬ 
ern Club. 

Mr. Elsey resides at 1335 Central Avenue and his place of 
business is located at Liberty and Michigan Streets. 




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DR. CHARLES P. EMERSON 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CHARLES PHILLIPS EMERSON 

HARLES PHILLIPS EMERSON, M. D., Dean and Pro¬ 
fessor of Medicine of the Indiana University School of Medi¬ 
cine, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana, was born at 
Methuen, Massachusetts, September 4, 1872, the son of Jacob and 
Josephine (David) Emerson. 

From early boyhood, the associations of the subject of this 
sketch have brought him into close contact with prominent scholars, 
fruits of scholarship and culture. Soon after his graduation from 
Amherst College, from which he obtained the degree of Bachelor 
of Arts in 1894, he entered Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore 
and from this noted institution received the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine in 1899. One half of each of the following five years 
were devoted to further study in Europe, at the University of 
Strassburg in 1900, the University of Basel in 1901, and at Paris 
during a considerable part of the year 1903. During this time he 
held also a teaching position in the Johns Hopkins Medical School. 

Dr. Emerson was for several years associated in medicine at 
Johns Hopkins University and resident physician of the Uni¬ 
versity hospital. From 1908 to 1911, he was superintendent of the 
Clifton Springs Sanitorium in New York and in the year 1909 
and 1910 was assistant professor of Medicine at Cornell Univer¬ 
sity. He took up his present work as Dean and Professor of 
Medicine at the University of Indiana, Indianapolis, in 1911, dur¬ 
ing which time, although never engaged in general practice he has, 
aside from his college and literary duties, attained to a position of 
eminence as a consulting physician among the men of professional 
achievement of the Capitol City. 

As an author Dr. Emerson is widely known through his works 
“Pheumothorax” published in 1904; “Clinical Diagnosis” pub¬ 
lished in 1906; “A Hospital for Children” published in 1905; and 
“Essentials of Medicine” published in 1908. He is a member of 
the Association of American Physicians, the American Medical 
Assocation, Chi Psi college fraternity, the Presbyterian Church 
and in politics is a Republican. 

The marriage of Dr. Emerson to Miss Effie Gilmour Perry, 
of Toronto, Canada, occurred April 4, 1909. Dr. and Mrs. Emer¬ 
son reside at 3177 North Pennsylvania Stieet. 


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OF AFFAIRS 



MARION E. ENSLEY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


MARION E. ENSLEY 

1WTARI0N E. ENSLEY, president of The A. Burdsal Company, 
1VA was born at Auburn, Indiana, December 17, 1877, son of 
Nicholas and Helen (Ditmars) Enslev. His education was ob¬ 
tained in the common schools of Auburn, Indiana, at Shortridge 
High School at Indianapolis and at Eastman College, Pough¬ 
keepsie, New York. When twenty years of age he became asso¬ 
ciated with the Foster Lumber Company of Indianapolis and with 
this concern continued until 1905, when his brother, Oliver P. 
Ensley, who was then treasurer of Marion County, Indiana, of¬ 
fered him the position of deputy treasurer, which he accepted and 
held for the two succeeding years. 

In 1908 upon the expiration of his term of office as deputy 
treasurer of Marion County, Mr. Ensley of this sketch, entered the 
bond business with his brother, under the firm name of Oliver P. 
Ensley and Bro. In 1912 this firm was discontinued, however, 
and he then became vice-president and general manager of The 
A. Burdsal Company, manufacturers of paints and varnishes. 
Early in 1923, upon the death of the brother, Oliver P. Ensley, 
who had been president of The A. Burdsal Company, and an 
honored and highly respected citizen of the Hoosier Capitol for 
many years, Marion E. Ensley became head of the company just 
mentioned and at the same time succeeded to the presidency of 
the Union National Savings & Loan Association and the Burdsal- 
Haffiler Paint Company of Fort Wayne, Indiana. 

In addition to these interests Mr. Ensley is director of the 
Indiana Naval Stores, a member of the National Paint, Oil and 
Varnish Association, the Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis 
Athletic Club and the Marion Club. In the Masonic fraternities 
Mr. Ensley is a member of Logan Lodge, No. 575, F. & A. M., In¬ 
diana Consistory Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Murat Temple 
of the Mystic Shrine and a member of the Benevolent Order of 
Elks. 

The marriage of Mr. Ensley to Miss Wilna E. Coyner occurred 
in Indianapolis, June 15, 1905. There is one daughter, Wilna 
Evangeline. 


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WILLIAM P. EVANS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


WILLIAM P. EVANS 

^^/ILLIAM P. EVANS, prosecuting attorney of Marion County, 
son of Thomas E. and Mary W. (Pascoe) Evans, now resid¬ 
ing at Greencastle, Indiana, was born on November 9, 1886, at 
Rosedale, Indiana. His public school education was received in 
the schools of Parke County. 

Upon graduating from DePauw University in 1907, Mr. 
Evans, in 1908, entered the Harvard Law School and graduated 
from that institution in 1911. For four years, beginning in Janu¬ 
ary, 1912, he was law partner of the late J. Frank Hanlv, former 
governor of Indiana. 

He entered the First Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Ben¬ 
jamin Harrison in May, 1917. Six months of his two years in 
service were overseas, where he commanded Companies I and A of 
the 334th Infantry. At the time of the signing of the Armistice 
he was the Regimental Operations officer. Returning to Indi¬ 
anapolis in 1919 from army service, he re-entered the practice of 
law and was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Marion County, 
assuming the duties of that office on January 1, 1921. His success 
in the conduct of that important office led to his re-nomination 
without opposition on the Republican ticket, and on November 7, 
1922, he was again elected Prosecuting Attorney for Marion 
County, which office he will hold until December 31, 1924. 

Mr. Evans has been particularly active in the American Le¬ 
gion. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine, 
the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Columbia Club, the Marion 
Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Elks, Knights of Pythias and 
I. O. O. F. lod ges and various other social and military organiza¬ 
tions. His college fraternity is the Phi Delta Theta. 

On January 24,1923, Mr. Evans married Miss Lucile McCray, 
daughter of Hon. and Mrs. Warren T. McCray. Mr. and Mrs. 
Evans reside at 3520 Fall Creek Boulevard. 


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OF AFFAIRS 



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HON. LOUIS B. EWBANK 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. LOUIS B. EWBANK 

LION. LOUIS B. EWBANK, Justice of the Supreme Court of 

the State of Indiana and for many years prominently iden¬ 
tified with the courts of this Commonwealth, was born on a farm 
near Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana, September 5, 
1864, son of John William and Betsey (Blasdel) Ewbank. 

His early education was obtained in the schools of Dearborn 
County, after which he taught school and studied law until 1891, 
when lie was admitted to the Indiana Bar and began the practice 
of law at Indianapolis. In this he continued until November 12, 
1914, when he was elected judge of the Circuit Court of Marion 
County, at Indianapolis, in which capacity he served until August 
1, 1920, when he was appointed by Governor James P. Goodrich 
io the Supreme Court of Indiana to fill a vacancy caused by the 
death of the late Hon. Lawson M. Harvey. The appointment was 
until the next general election, which occurred in the fall of that 
year, when he was elected for a full term of six years, which will 
expire January 1, 1927. 

Judge Ewbank was also a member of the faculty of the In¬ 
diana Law School from 1897 to 1914, and for a number of years, 
down to the present time, has given a course of lectures each year 
in the law school of the Indiana University. 

Judge Ewbank is also the author of a number of law books. 
His initial work, “The Manual of Indiana Appellate Practice,” 
first appeared in 1900, and a second edition was published in 1915. 
in 1904 he published “Indiana Trial Evidence,” and from that 
year continuously to and including 1914, he edited the “Indiana 
Cumulative Digest,” of which he published four volumes, and in 
1907 published “Indiana Criminal Law.” In 1906 he was also 
co-author of “Modern Business Corporations.” 

Judge Ewbank is a member of the Columbia Club, Marion 
Club, Century Club, Indianapolis Literary Club; the Indianapolis, 
Indiana State and American Bar Associations. In the Masonic 
fraternitv he is a member of the Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, the 
York and Scottish Rite bodies, and Murat Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine. He also belongs to Indianapolis Lodge, No. 465,1. O. O. F. 

He was married at Shelbyville, Indiana, to Miss Effie Shoe¬ 
maker, October 17, 1893. Mis. Ewbank died January 12, 1900. 


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FRANK B. FLANNER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRANK BATES FLANNER 


17RANK B. FLANNER, vice-president and manager of Flannel* 
& Bnclianan, Inc., 320 North Illinois Street, was born at De- 


Graff, Minnesota, October 19, 1876, son of Charles W. and Etta 
(Wadsworth) Elanner. His early education was secured in the 
public and high schools of his native city. 


After leaving school the subject of this sketch entered news¬ 
paper work in the South. In addition to this work he contributed 
poems and humorous articles to Puck and Judge magazines, and 
Punch, the English humorous magazine. He also engaged for a 
time in the advertising business at Birmingham, Alabama. 


In 1904, Mr. Flannel* returned to Indianapolis to become as¬ 
sociated with the Flanner & Buchanan, Inc., an organization which 
had been founded in 1881 by an uncle, Mr. Frank W. Flanner. It 
is of interest to note here that the Flanner family has resided in 
Indianapolis for sixty years. 


Mr. Flanner has been intensely interested in the mortician’s 
profession since his first association with the business and, in this 
connection was one of the founders and later a vice-president of the 
National Selected Morticians, an organization composed of leaders 
in that profession in all parts of the country. 

He is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, 
past-president of the Indianapolis Advertising Club, a member of 
the Iviwanis Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Highland 
Golf and Country Club, the Art Association of Indianapolis, 
Knights Templar, Scottish Rite and the Mystic Tie Masonic 
Lodge. 

Mr. Flanner married Miss Annie Lou Johnston at Birming¬ 
ham, Alabama, June 2, 1903. The family home is at Forty-third 
Street and Cold Springs Road. 


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MEN OF AFFAIRS 



STOUGHTON A. FLETCHER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


STOUGHTON A. FLETCHER 


OTOUGIITON A. FLETCHER, for many years actively identified with finan- 
^ eial and banking interests of Indianapolis and member of a family that has 
for three generations been prominently associated with the commercial develop¬ 
ment of the Iloosier Capital, was born in Indianapolis, November 24, 1879, son 
of Stoughton J. and Laura (Locke) Fletcher. The American ancestry of the 
Fletcher family goes back to Robert Fletcher, who was born in Northern Eng¬ 
land and settled at Concord, Massachusetts, in 1630. 


Stoughton A. Fletcher, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born 
at Ludlow, Vermont, August 22, 1808, and died at Indianapolis, March 17, 
1882. lie came to Indianapolis in 1831 and here, in 1839, founded Fletcher’s 
Bank on Washington Street just east of Meridian, from which has since devel¬ 
oped the Fletcher American National Bank. Stoughton J. Fletcher was born 
in Indianapolis October 25, 1831 and in this city died December 25, 1909. As an 
outstanding figure in banking and financial activities, he occupied a position 
of confidence and high esteem throughout tire Commonwealth. Upon him were 
imposed the responsibilities of his father, upon the latter’s death in 1882, and 
in this trust he was eminently successful. When the banking house founded by 
his father became a national bank, March 28, 1898, he became president of that 
institution, the Fletcher National Bank, and as such continued until 1907, when 
he retired from the position in favor of his son, to conclude active participation 
in business affairs. 


The early education of Stoughton A. Fletcher, whose name initiates this 
review, was obtained in the public schools of this city, after which he attended 
Princeton University. He then became assistant cashier of the Fletcher Na¬ 
tional Bank, later vice-president and in 1907 was elected president. On Septem¬ 
ber 3, 1910 the Fletcher National Bank merged with the American National 
Bank and, as president of the new institution—the Fletcher American National 
Bank—Mr. Fletcher continued until May 19, 1923, when he resigned the position 
to independently engage as a financial counsel to individuals and corporations. 

In view of the large association of Mr. Fletcher with business and financial 
affairs, not only in this city but in the largest financial centers of the country, 
he occupies a position of more than ordinary influence among financial and 
business dictators, while, as a citizen of Indianapolis he has for many years been 
actively identified with practically every civic and public-spirited undertaking 
presented to those responsible for the general development of the Capital city. 

Mr. Fletcher is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Columbia Club, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, of which he is a founder member, Country Club, Art 
Association, Athenaeum, Dramatic Club, Academy of Music, University Club 
and the Woodstock Club. 

The marriage of Mr. Fletcher to Miss Mae Henley occurred in 1900. Mrs. 
Fletcher died in 1921. There are two children, Laurel Louisa and Stoughton J. 


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FRANK E. FLOYD 


Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 


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FRANK E. FLOYD 

pRANK EVANS FLOYD, secretary and general manager of 

the Crescent Paper Company, 211 West Georgia Street, was 

born at Indianapolis, January 25, 1873, son of M. H. Floyd and 
Clarinda (Evans) Floyd. He attended the Indianapolis public 
schools, after which, in 1890, he entered the paper department of 
the old Bowen-Merrill Company, publishers, predecessors of the 
Bobbs-Merrill Company. 

When the Crescent Paper Company was formed, in 1897, the 
paper department of the Bowen-Merrill Company was merged 
into the new company and to the sales staff of this new company 
Mr. Floyd was appointed. Later lie was selected secretary and 
genera] manager of the company. 

Mr. Floyd is a member of the Scottish and York Rite Masonic 
organizations and of the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He 
is also a member of the Columbia Club, the Woodstock Club and 
the Rotary Club of which he was president from October, 1920, 
to October, 1921, and of the Third Christian Church. 

On January 31, 1894, he married Miss Bessie Scrimsher at 
Indianapolis. They have three children, Mrs. Leonard Carlin, nee 
Miss Helen Floyd; Mrs. Willis Benton Conner, Jr., nee Miss 
Leora Martha Floyd and Frank E. Floyd, Jr. The family resi¬ 
dence is at 4450 Park Avenue. 


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DANIEL FOLEY 


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DANIEL FOLEY 

£)ANIEL FOLEY. president of the American Construction 

Company, contractors for public improvements in Indianap¬ 
olis, was born in County Kerry, Ireland, August 3, 1846, son of 
Dennis and Mary (Sullivan) Foley. Mr. Foley was educated in 
the schools of his native town in Ireland. 

Coming to America in 1863, he stopped but a few days in the 
Fast and then came to Indianapolis where he entered the service 
of the Pennsylvania Railroad. For sixteen years, with the excep¬ 
tion of two in which he served as Justice of the Peace in Warren 
Township, he was with the Pennsylvania System. During his 
term as Justice of the Peace he learned telegraphy from a brother 
who was then agent and telegraph operator at Cumberland, In¬ 
diana, and so resigned as Justice of the Peace to become night 
operator at Wellsborrow, LaPort County, Indiana, on the B. & O. 
railroad and on the Belt railroad at the crossing of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania and C. H. & D. railroads at Indianapolis. 

After two years in that capacity, however, Mr. Foley returned 
to his former work of building and repairing railroads. From 
1882 to 1888, he was engaged in the grocery business. In 1887, he 
was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives and in 1889 
was elected to the Indiana State Senate, serving in that body until 
1891. 

Entering the contracting business in 1890, Mr. Foley engaged 
in this work while serving as a State Senator. In 1895 he founded 
the American Construction Company of which he has been con¬ 
tinuously the president. The company has since its organization 
been engaged in the construction of asphalt streets, sewers and 
bridges in Indianapolis and Marion County. Many of the finest 
asphalt streets of Indianapolis were constructed by Mr. Foley’s 
company and it is of interest to here note that Mr. Foley has 
done much toward placing Indianapolis in the forefront among 
cities of high grade public improvements. 

Mr. Foley, in addition to being president of the American 
Construction Company, is vice-president of the Merchants Ice 
Company and a director of the Mars Hill Association. He is a 
member of the Indiana Democratic Club and of the Knights of 
Columbus. 

In 1889 Mr. Foley married Miss Jessie Fish at Indianapolis. 
There are two children, Eugene Foley who is general manager of 
the American Construction Company, and Mrs. Carl H. Wallerich, 
nee Miss Inez Foley. Mr. Foley resides at the Denison Hotel. 


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HERBERT W. FOLTZ 


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HERBERT WILLARD FOLTZ 

AMONG the outstanding architects in Indianapolis who have 

leached a distinguished position in their chosen profession is 
Herbert Willard Foltz, a son of Howard M. and Mary Virginia 
(Jones) Foltz. Mr. Foltz was horn in Indianapolis, February 23, 
1867. He received his technical training at the Rose Polytechnic 
Institute, of Terre Haute, Indiana, and obtained the degree of 
Bachelor of Science in 1886. Later he studied at the Chicago Art 
Institute. 

Since 1891 Mr. Foltz has practiced architecture continually 
in Indianapolis and now maintains offices in the new J. F. Wild 
Building. During his architectural career he has designed some 
notable structures, including the Southeastern Indiana Hospital 
for the Insane at Madison, the Indiana Village for Epileptics at 
Newcastle, the new Indiana Reformatory at Pendleton, the Bobbs- 
Merrill and Y. M. C. A. buildings in Indianapolis, new buildings 
for the Rose Polytechnic Institute, Tudor Hall School for Girls at 
Indianapolis, and High School buildings at Greensburg, Terre 
Haute and Newcastle. 

In engineering, and particularly in architectural circles, Mr. 
Foltz occupies an exceptionally prominent position. He is a Fel¬ 
low of the American Institute of Architects and at present presi¬ 
dent of the Indiana chapter of this association. He is a member 
of the Indianapolis Architects’ Association, Indiana Society of 
Architects, Indiana Artists, Rose-Tecli Club, Scientech Club, In¬ 
dianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Real Estate Board, Indiana 
State Board for the Registration of Professional Engineers, a 
director of the Indianapolis Art Association, a member of the 
Citizens’ Advisory Committee for the Public Library, and was for 
two years (1918-1919) president of the Indianapolis Board of 
School Commissioners. Mr. Foltz is a Shriner, a thirty-second de¬ 
gree Mason, a Republican in politics, member of the First Presby¬ 
terian Church, and a member of the following clubs: Marion, 
Columbia, Century, University, Contemporary, Portfolio, Play¬ 
ers, Dramatic, Woodstock, Country, Society of Indiana Pioneers, 
Indiana Audubon Society, Indianapolis Athletic Club, and Hoosier 
Motor Club. 

Mr. Foltz married Miss Clara Louise Bowen, of Joliet, Illi¬ 
nois, August 3, 1893. There are three children—a son and two 
daughters—Howard Franklin, Bertina Louise and Barbara 
Louise. 


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B. M. FORBES 


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BURTSAL MONROE FORBES 

D t RTSAL MONROE FORBES, treasurer and general manager 

of the Forbes-Hubbard Lumber Company, Shelby Street and 
the Belt Railroad, son of Lorenzo W. and Lydia A. (Gilbreath) 
Forbes, was born at Knightstown, Henry County, Indiana, Janu¬ 
ary 30,18/2. He received his education in the Indianapolis public 
schools and at the Central Normal College at Danville, Indiana. 

In 1890 he entered railroad service as a telegrapher and sta¬ 
tion agent at Newcastle and later at Wilkinson, Indiana. After 
leaving Wilkinson lie went to Arcanum, Ohio, as station agent, 
but in 1903 left railroad service to become associated with the firm 
of Francis & Rosser, of that city, as head of the firm’s lumber 
interests at Brookville, Ohio, the firm name of the Brookville com¬ 
pany being B. M. Forties & Company. Later he disposed of his 
interest in the company and acquired a retail lumber business at 
Lewisburg, Ohio. After four years of successful business in that 
city he disposed of his interests and became associated with the 
Francis & Clennn Company at Troy, Ohio, becoming vice-presi¬ 
dent of that organization. 


Coming to Indianapolis in 1914, after selling his interests in 
the Troy company, he became associated with the Burnet-Lewis 
Lumber Company as superintendent of the firm’s south yards. 
He also acquired an interest in the company, but the business was 
dissolved on April 1, 1916, and Mr. Forbes joined with Mr. Lewis 
in founding the Lewis-Forbes Lumber Company, of which he 
became treasurer. In 1920 the Lewis-Forbes Company was ac¬ 
quired by the Forbes-Hubbard Lumber Company, and Mr. Forbes 
became treasurer and general manager of this large, well-equipped 
and fast-growing company. 

Mr. Forbes is treasurer of the Retail Lumber Dealers’ Asso¬ 
ciation of Indiana, a member of the Board of Deacons of the Taber¬ 
nacle Presbyterian Church, a Knights Templar, a member of the 
Mystic Shrine and other Masonic bodies. He is also a member of 
the Chamber of Commerce and the Indianapolis Athletic Club. 
In politics Mr. Forbes is a Republican. 

Mr. Forbes married Miss Ora D. Armstrong at Warrington, 
I ndiana, on April 22, 1893. They have one daughter, Mrs. Harold 
C. Antrim, nee Jewell C. Forbes, and a grandson, Forbes Antrim. 
The family home is at 2023 North Illinois Street. 


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Photograph by Northland Studios 

DR. WILLIAM H. FOREMAN 



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WILLIAM H. FOREMAN, M. D. 

ILLIAM H. FOREMAN, M. D., a recognized authority in Gastro-Enterol- 



VV ogv and Dietetics and the author of numerous articles on Gastro-Enterol- 
ogy. was born at Kokomo, Indiana, April 22, 1868, son of Walter W. and Re¬ 
becca (Woollen) Foreman. Upon completing his elementary education he at¬ 
tended DePauw University Normal School, from which he graduated in 1889, 
after which for ten years, he was principal and superintendent of schools of 
Greentown, Kokomo, Union City and Petersburg, Indiana. In 1893 he deter¬ 
mined to continue his higher education and, accordingly, entered Indiana Uni¬ 
versity at Bloomington, Indiana, and from that institution graduated in 1895, 
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. This was followed by the course prescribed 
at the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons—now the Indiana University 
School of Medicine and from which he graduated in 1901, with the degree of 
Doctor of Medicine, and post-graduate courses at Philadelphia, Baltimore, 
Chicago and Boston. 

Immediately following the completion of this work Dr. Foreman became 
engaged in the general practice of medicine in Indianapolis and in this he gained 
an enviable reputation. In 1915 he determined to limit his practice to Gast.ro- 
Enterology and Medical Diagnosis and in this work he has become an outstand¬ 
ing figure among members of the medical profession. 

From 1901 to 1910, Dr. Foreman was professor of Bacteriology and Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics at the State College of Physicians and Surgeons and, 
since 1910, has been Associate Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University 
School of Medicine. He is upon the medical staff of St. Vincent’s, Methodist, 
Deaconess and Indianapolis City Hospitals and is a member of the Indianapolis 
Medical Society, Indiana State Medical Association and the American Medical 
Association. He is also a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, Marion Club, the I nited States ^ olunteer Medical 
Service Corps and is, at this writing, a member of the Board of Health Com¬ 
missioners of the City of Indianapolis. 

Dr. Foreman, who is also prominent in educational, benevolent and social 
work, maintains a completely equipped office for Gastro-Intestinal and general 
medical diagnosis, including complete laboratories, X-ray, clinical and Basal 
Metabolism, each laboratory in charge of a specialist. 

The marriage of Dr. Foreman to Miss Tillie Hobson took place at Kokomo, 
Indiana, August 13, 1891. There are two daughters, Airs. Charles E. Binkley, 
nee Agnes, and Mrs. Clarence E. V llkinson, nee Dorothy. Di. and Mis. Foie- 
man reside at Haverstick’s Park. 


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Photograph by Moorefield, 

GEORGE C. FORREY, JR. 


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GEORGE C. FORREY JR. 


EORGE C. FORREY, JR., president of the Fletcher Ameri¬ 
can Company and first vice-president of the Fletcher Ameri¬ 
can National Bank and for several years actively identified with 
financial affairs of Indianapolis, was horn at Anderson, Indiana, 
January 31, 1882, the only son of the late George C. and Mary 
(Baxter) Forrey. His early education was obtained in the public 
schools of the city of his birth, after which he attended Culver 
Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1899. Upon the 
conclusion of this course Mr. Forrey entered Williams College 
and from that institution graduated in 1903 with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts. 


The first business experience of Mr. Forrey was as a bond 
salesman with E. M. Campbell & Company, an Indianapolis in¬ 
vestment concern. In 1905 he became associated with the firm of 
Breed & Harrison and of which, in 1912, he became a partner. 
The following year Mr. Forrey assisted in the organization of 
Breed, Elliott & Harrison, of Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Chi¬ 
cago. He was elected vice-president of the company and was 
placed in active charge of the Indianapolis branch of the business. 
He continued in this position until 1920, when he became vice- 
president of the Fletcher American Company and a director of 
the Fletcher American National Bank. On May 19, 1923, he was 
elected to the positions that lie now holds. 

In addition to these activities Mr. Forrey was one of the 
three membeis of the committee for the State of Indiana promot¬ 
ing the sale of the first two issues of Liberty Bonds. In the last 
two issues of Liberty Bonds, he was also director of the State 
Speakers’ Bureau and during the latter part of the war was 
appointed Assistant Chief of the Educational Industrial Section 
of Indiana for the United States Ordnance Department. During 
the war Mr. Forrey was offered a commission as captain but this 
he declined for the reason that he felt he could more effectively 
conduct the work assigned to him as a civilian. 

Mr. Forrey is a member of the Indianapolis Stock Exchange, 
Columbia Club, Indianapolis Country Club, Rotary Club and the 
Athenseum. In the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with Fellow¬ 
ship Lodge, F. & A. M. at Anderson and the Scottish Rite at In¬ 
dianapolis. 

The marriage of Mr. Forrey to Miss Lucia Hurst took place 
at Anderson, April 23, 1913. Mr. Forrey has two children by a 
former marriage, George C., third, born May 6,1907, and Elheurah 
J., born February 19, 1906. 


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WILLIAM FORTUNE 


Photograph by Bretsman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 


WILLIAM FORTUNE 


W ILLIAM FORTUNE, son of William H. and Mary 
(St. Clair) Fortune, was born in Warrick Coun¬ 
ty, Indiana, May 27, 1863. He is of French and 
Scotch descendants on his mother’s side—the St. Claires 
of Kentucky and Virginia, and of French and German 
descendants on his father’s side. His mother’s father 
was Isaac St. Clair, and her grandfather was Raymond 
St. Clair. Although the St. Claires were large slave 
owners, the Kentucky branch of the family took the 
Union side during the Civil War and five of the six 
uncles of William Fortune fought with the Federal 
forces. William H. Fortune was one of the first to 
enlist in Company A of the First Indiana Cavalry and 
served until the close of the war. After the war he 
located at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in the summer of 
1865, but eighteen months later returned North and for 
the next few years lived at Paxton, Illinois; Seymour, 
Shoals, Mitchell and Evansville, Indiana. 

It was in these places that the subject of this sketch 
spent his youth, living at Boonville from nine to eighteen 
years of age. In 1877 he became an apprentice in the 
printing office of the Boonville Standard and before he 
was sixteen years old, was doing much of the editorial 
work on that paper. When but seventeen years old he 
wrote and published a history of Warrick County, from 
the profits of which he provided for the family then de¬ 
pendent upon him, while he sought new w r ork. 

In January, 1882, Mr. Fortune became a reporter on 
the Indianapolis Journal. This marks his first appear¬ 
ance in Indianapolis. In 1884 he became city editor of 
the Journal, succeeding Harry S. New, but resigned this 
position in the spring of 1888, when he founded the 
Sunday Press. The nomination of Harrison for Presi¬ 
dent made Indiana the center of battle in the cam¬ 
paign of 1888, and as the special representative of sev¬ 
eral widely known newspapers, Mr. Fortune did notable 
work as a political correspondent. In fact, as a result 
of this work he was offered the position of Washington 
correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, but this he de¬ 
clined. 

From this time on the life of Mr. Fortune reads 
much like a history of many of the important events in 
Indianapolis. After having written a series of editorial 
articles for the Indianapolis News on the need of public- 
spirited efforts by the citizens of Indianapolis, which 
met with popular response, in February, 1890, Mr. 
I ortune called a meeting of twenty-seven of the younger 
business men of the city for the purpose of forming the 
old Commercial Club and to lay out a program of civic 
activities, the first of importance to be the reorganiza¬ 
tion of the city government under a charter which, after 
nine months of study, was believed to be the best form 
of charter that had up to that time been enacted for 
any American city. In the same year the first National 
Paving Exposition was held in Indianapolis with Mr. 
Fortune in charge, with the aim of educating the people 
locally on the importance of good street paying, and as 
a result of this exposition the modern paving of Indi¬ 
anapolis was started. 

In 1891 Mr. Fortune proposed that a concerted ef¬ 
fort be made to bring large conventions and meetings 
to Indianapolis, and as a result of this enterprise Indi¬ 
anapolis has come to be known as one of the most promi¬ 
nent convention centers in tlie country. In 1892 an 
Indiana “good roads movement’’ was started through 
the efforts of Mr. Fortune, and then in 1893 Mr. For¬ 
tune was elected executive director of the G. A. R. Na¬ 
tional Encampment which was held in this city at that 


time and which has been recorded as the largest G. A. 
a. Encampment ever held. In 1894 a committee com¬ 
posed of Mr. Fortune, H. H. Hanna and Col. Eli Lilly 
had charge of the relief for the unemployed in Indianap¬ 
olis and provided for over 5,000 throughout the winter 
under what became widely known as “the Indianapolis 
plan of relief for unemployed.’’ From 1897 to 1899 
Mr. Fortune was president of the State Board of Com¬ 
merce, which inaugurated a reform in county and town¬ 
ship government and which in turn brought about a 
saving of over three million dollars to tax payers the 
first year of operation. Air. Fortune, in 1894, 'outlined 
plans under which track elevation was undertaken by 
the Commercial Club Elevated Track Commission, and 
he succeeded Col. Lilly as Chairman of the Commission 
in 1898. Track elevation in Indianapolis has been often 
referred to publicly as his monument, although in the 
early days it was derisively called “Fortune’s Folly’’ by 
opponents. This commission served for more than twen¬ 
ty-five years before all of its purposes were finally 
accomplished. In 1899 he was presented with a loving 
cup by citizens of Indianapolis, headed by Benjamin 
Harrison, in appreciation of his services to his city and 
state. 

Mr. Fortune was president of the Indianapolis Tele¬ 
phone Company and the New Long Distance Company 
from 1909 until the properties were finally sold in 1920 
to the Indiana Bell Telephone Company interests. 

Since its organization in 1916, Air. Fortune has been 
continuously president of the Indianapolis Chapter of 
the American Red Cross, to which he has given untir¬ 
ingly of his time and energy. The National Council of 
the Red Cross voted him the Aledal of Alerit in 1917. 
The War Chest is another public enterprise that owes 
its birth to Air. Fortune. After a long study of the 
needs for community activities in other cities, full in¬ 
formation and plans were submitted to a public meeting 
of representatives of all civic organizations, resulting 
in the meeting by unanimous resolution electing Air. 
Fortune president and conferring upon him authority to 
name all other directors and to outline the rules and 
regulations under which the A¥ar Chest should operate. 
It is a notable fact that the War Chest during its 
existence raised approximately three million dollars for 
war activities and local charities. 

At the time of the reorganization of the Chamber of 
Commerce in 1918, Mr. Fortune was elected president. 
Among the outstanding accomplishments of the Chamber 
of Commerce at that time are to be listed the location 
and management of the war vocational training camps 
in Indianapolis and also the establishment of a war 
contract bureau at Washington, D. C., through which 
many millions of dollars of business was secured for 
Indiana manufacturers. Upon the expiration of his 
third term, Mr. Fortune was strongly urged to continue 
as president, but this he declined. 

Air. Fortune was the first president of the Indiana 
Tress Club, was one of the originators of the Century 
Club and was its president in 1892; was president of the 
Automobile Club of Indiana from 1904 to 1906, and is 
at this time a member of the Country Club, Columbia 
Club, University Club, Contemporary Club, Woodstock 
Club and the Athenaeum. 

Air. Fortune married Aliss Alay Knubbe, November 
25, 1884. Airs. Fortune died September 28, 1898. There 
are three children: Russell, Airs. Eli Lilly, nee Evelyn, 
and Airs. Bowman Elder, nee Aladeline. The family 
home is at 963 North Pennsylvania Street. 


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Photograph hy Bretzman 

EDWARD D. FOUTS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDWARD D. FOUTS 


E DWARD D. FOUTS, son of Eugene Pink¬ 
ney and Lydia Beck Fonts, was born 
March 18, 1888, in Wichita, Kansas. He now 
owns and personally directs the operations of 
the Fonts Car and Tractor Sales Company, lo¬ 
cated at the corner of Belmont and West Wash¬ 
ington Streets. lie is considered one of the fore¬ 
most Ford dealers in the State of Indiana, and 
is known as a man of exceptional business in¬ 
tegrity, and is numbered among the more 
prominent Indianapolis men of affairs. 

After receiving his early education in 
Wetherford, Texas, where he was graduated 
from high school in 1906, Mr. Fonts spent a 
number of years on his father’s cattle ranch 
near Fort Worth, Texas. He is one of the few 
young men who has the distinction of having 
crossed the State of Texas on a horse. Later 
he attended the Iluey and Turner Training 
School for two years, and was one of the best 
athletes ever turned out at the Friends Uni¬ 
versity in Wichita, an institution he attended 
for two years. 

Beginning as a yard clerk at nights for the 
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad, Mr. 
Fonts in a very short time worked up to the 
position of chief clerk. He resigned to take a 
position with the Midland Valiev Railroad, 
which operated between Pahuska, Oklahoma, 
and Wichita, Kansas; but he remained only 
seven months with this position, after which he 
was for six months traffic manager for the 
Wichita Wholesale Manufacturing Company. 

Late in 1913, Air. Fouts removed to Indi¬ 
anapolis. Ilis first position here was with the 
Aetna Cabinet Company. While with this con¬ 


cern he became acquainted with Robert II. 
Ilassler, who at that time was perfecting an 
invention on shock absorbers designed espe¬ 
cially for Ford cars. Mr. Fouts took charge 
of the sale of these shock absorbers and in the 
course of six years built for Mr. Ilassler a 
three-million-dollar sales business. During this 
time Mr. Fouts traveled all over the United 
States and became one of the most widely 
known salesmen dealing in Ford accessories. 
He left this business in 1920, and opened the 
Fouts Car and Tractor Sales Company, of 
which he is sole owner. 

The company is the newest of the local 
Ford concerns, but it has grown rapidly from 
its inception to the present time, which finds 
it well toward the top and in splendid progress. 
Mr. Fonts’ thorough knowledge of the Ford 
cars he sells has enabled him to build up a 
service reputation unexcelled in the business in 
which he is engaged. 

When in Wichita Mr. Fonts was president 
of the Semper Fidelis Club of that city and also 
conducted a class in Sunday School instruction. 

He is a member of the Indianapolis Ath¬ 
letic Club, Columbia Club, and Highland Golf 
and Country Club, and in the Masonic frater¬ 
nity is affiliated with Mystic Tie Lodge No. 
398, F. & A. M., the Scottish Rite, of which he 
is a life member, and the Murat Temple of the 
Mystic Shrine. 

He married Marguerite Owens Walker, Feb¬ 
ruary 14, 1912, in Wichita. There are two chil¬ 
dren in the family—a son, Edward Eugene, and 
a daughter, Ruth Marguerite. The family re¬ 
sides at 3923 North Pennsylvania Street. 


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OF AFFAIRS 



WILLIAM S. FRYE 


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WILLIAM SMITH FRYE 

YY/TLLIAM SMITH FRYE, proprietor of the AY. S. Frye 
Transfer, was born at Gallatin, Tennessee, on April 13,1873, 
son of Henry Frye and Anne Errena (Judson) Frye, the parents 
being of the same family name but not related. The earliest an¬ 
cestors of the Frye family in America were Benjamin and Chris¬ 
tina Frye, of Frederick County, Yirginia, several sons of whom 
served with credit in the Revolutionary War. Later members of 
the family became the pioneer settlers of Brownsville, Washing¬ 
ton County, Pennsylvania. 

In the public and high schools of Gallatin, Tennessee, Mr. 
Frye obtained his education. In his seventeenth year the family 
moved to a farm near Charleroi, Pennsylvania, and in that year 
he accepted a position with the Pittsburg Glass Company of 
Charleroi, and for four years was a department head of that 
company. 

On coming to Indianapolis in 1892, Mr. Frye was associated 
with the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, remaining there 
for about four years. Beginning in 1897, he established a tea and 
coffee trade and continued in that business until 1907, when he 
formed the W. S. Frye Transfer. 

Many of the most difficult hauling and rigging problems con¬ 
fronting Indianapolis business men and manufacturers have been 
solved by Mr. Frye. Notable examples of the difficult undertak¬ 
ings which he has successfully negotiated include the raising of a 
600-ton vault from the Indiana National Bank and the installation 
of a new one under it; the raising of a 75,000-pound machine to the 
third floor of the new plant of the Evans Milling Company; the 
installation of turbine-generator set weighing 200,000 pounds for 
the Merchants Heat & Light Company; the erection of three 60- 
inch smoke stacks, 120 feet in heighth, at Ethan, Indiana; and the 
erection of a 53,000-pound perpendicular gasoline still on a 10-foot 
foundation at the property of the Portland (Indiana) Oil & Re¬ 
fining Company. 

On October 9, 1901, Mr. Frye was married to Miss Ella Alar- 
low Cox, daughter of the late Gillum Hudson and Emma Sim¬ 
mons Cox, formerly of Madison, Indiana. They have one child, 
Eleanor Laverne, who, June 3, 1922, married Charles Kenneth 
Eiler, of Winchester, Indiana, The country home is southeast of 
Irvington, Box 344, R. R. P. 

Air. Frye is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, the Marion Club, and was two years treasurer of the Indi¬ 
anapolis Humane Society. He is a 32nd degree Alason, a member 
of the Alystic Shrine, a past chancellor of Irvington Lodge No. 
324, Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge. 
He is a Baptist and in politics is a Republican. 


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Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 

FRED C. GARDNER 


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FRED C. GARDNER 


F red c. Gardner, who nearly forty years ago entered the employment 
of E. C. Atkins & Company in the capacity of an office boy but who is today 
treasurer of that institution, was born in DeAYitt County, Illinois, August 23, 
1863, son of Anson J. and Alary Elizabeth (Watson) Gardner. IIis early edu¬ 
cation was obtained in the public schools of Illinois, after which he attended the 
city schools of Indianapolis. When seventeen years of age he began his busi¬ 
ness career as a clerk in the Auditor’s office of the I. B. & \\ r . Railroad, now a 
part of the Big Four System. From that position, about six months later, how¬ 
ever, he entered the employe of E. C. Atkins & Company and with this institu¬ 
tion, through hard work, fidelity and concentration of effort, he has continu¬ 
ously occupied more important positions until 1912 when he Avas elected treas¬ 
urer of the company. 

During the last fourteen years Air. Gardner has also been actively inter¬ 
ested in the Spencer Hotel which he has jointly owned and operated, for the 
period mentioned, Avith Air. A\ T . A. Atkins, elseAvhere referred to in this volume. 
In June 1922 Air. Gardner jointly acquired Avith Air. Atkins a long time lease 
on the Hotel Severin property which, together Avith the Spencer Hotel, these 
men are hoav operating. 

In addition to this Air. Gardner is a member of the Board of Directors of 
the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, OAvned by the American Telephone and 
Telegraph Company and for a number of years has been on the Board of Di¬ 
rectors of the Columbia Club, of Avhicli he Avas president in 1913. He is also 
at this time treasurer of the Circle Theatre. 


Air. Gardner has served as treasurer of the Alarion County Republican 
Club, and of the Republican City Committee and, during the term of Joseph E. 
Bell, as mayor of the city of Indianapolis, was a Republican member of the 
Board of Park Commissioners. He AA~as also at one time treasurer of Butler 
College and from 1920 to 1922 inclusive Avas treasurer of the Indiana State Re¬ 
publican Committee. 

lie is now a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Columbia Club, Alarion 
Club, AVoodstock Club, Country Club, Academy of Alusie, Board of Trade, and 
of the Christian Church. 


In Alasonrv Air. Gardner is affiliated Avith Oriental Lodge No. a00 F. & A. 
Al. Keystone Chapter No. 6, Royal Arch Alasons, Raper Commandery No. 1, 
Knights Templar, Indiana Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Alurat Temple 
of the Alystic Shrine. 


Air. Gardner married Aliss Cara E. Davis, November 28, 1883. To this union 
Avere born three children, Alary Elizabeth, Alargaret Lucy and Fred C., Jr., the 
latter of AA'liom died in infancy. 


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Photograph by Harris & Ewing 

HARRY 0. GARMAN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HARRY OTTO GARMAN 


H ARRY OTTO GARMAN, son of Noah 
Webster and Rosa Belle (Teeter) Gar- 
man, was born February 7, 1880, at Rolling 
Prairie, Laporte County, Indiana. After grad¬ 
uating from the public schools in that vicinity, 
Mr. Garman graduated in the course of Civil 
Engineering at Purdue University, Lafayette, 
Indiana, where he received the degrees of Bach¬ 
elor of Science and of Civil Engineer in the 
years 1902 and 1904 respectively. He was in¬ 
structor and professor of Civil Engineering at 
Purdue University for ten years following his 
graduation. 

In 1907 he was appointed Consulting En¬ 
gineer for the Indiana Railroad Commission, 
which position he held until 1913, when he re¬ 
signed from the faculty of the University to 
become Chief Engineer of the Indiana Public 
Service and Utilities Commission. lie served 
this Public Utilities Commission in the capac¬ 
ity of Chief Engineer for nine years. During 
this time he had engineering supervision for 
the Commission over all of the public utilities 
and railroads in the State of Indiana, covering 
approximately fourteen hundred properties. 
He made investigations, inspections and ap¬ 
praisals of more than eight hundred public 
utilities in Indiana, valued at substantially 
$300,000,000.00. He wrote the rules and stand¬ 
ards of service for Indiana covering electrical 
utilities, artificial gas utilities, and central sta¬ 
tion hot water heating utilities. 

At the conclusion of his work for the state, 
January 1, 1922, Mr. Garman opened private 
offices in the city of Indianapolis, where lie 
is now practicing as a Consulting Engineer, 


giving particular attention to public utilities, 
railroads, drainage, hydro developments, sew¬ 
age disposal, rates, examinations, appraisals, 
management, and reports. He is interested in 
a number of the public and civic enterprises of 
the city, and is closely identified with all of the 
more important engineering organizations in 
this country. He is a part owner of the Indi¬ 
anapolis Commercial, a director of the City 
Trust Company, and a former secretary of the 
Enquirer Printing and Publishing Company. 

Mr. Garman is a member of the American 
Society of Civil Engineers, the American In¬ 
stitute of Electrical Engineers, the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society 
for the Promotion of Engineering Education, 
the American Railway Engineering Association, 
member and past national president (1921-22) 
of the American Association of Engineers, 
member and past president of the Indiana En¬ 
gineering Society, and member of the Amer¬ 
ican Water Works Association. 

Mr. Garman is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, a Mason, and the Acacia 
fraternity. lie is an active member of the In¬ 
dianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, 
and the Scientech Club. 

Mr. Garman married, December 19, 1904, 
Miss Ethel E. Hanly, daughter of the former 
Governor of Indiana, J. Frank Hanly. They 
have living two children, Harry Ilanly Garman 
and Helen Louise Garman. The Garman home 
is at 2062 North Meridian Street. Mr. Garman 
lias offices in the Indiana Pythian Building, 
Indianapolis, Indiana. 


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Photograph hy Bretzman 

MATTHEW F. GARTLAND 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


MATTHEW F. GARTLAND 


M ATTHEW F. GARTLAND, for many 
years prominently identified with the 
malleable and gray iron foundry business and 
president of eleven foundries located in Illinois, 
Indiana and Ohio, was born at Naugatuck. Con¬ 
necticut, March 13, 1857, son of Patrick and 
Ellen (Daley) Gartland. His education was 
received in the public schools of the city of his 
birth, after which when but fourteen years of 
age, he entered the core department of what was 
then the Tuttle & Whitmore Malleable Iron 
Company at Naugatuck, and in which position 
he was continuously employed for approxi¬ 
mately six years. He then went to Cleveland, 
Ohio, to enter the foundry of the National Mal¬ 
leable Castings Company. One year later he 
went to Youngstown, Ohio, in the employ of the 
Youngstown Malleable Iron Company. He then 
went to Springfield, Ohio, as foreman of the 
core department of the Springfield Malleable 
Iron Company and, as such remained with the 
company for six years. At the end of that time 
he went to Marion, Indiana, in charge of the 
foundry of the Marion Malleable Iron Com¬ 
pany, remaining with that concern for four 
years. 

In April 1 893, having accumulated a large 
volume of practical experience in the foundry 
business, Mr. Gartland determined to become 
independently engaged and so in that year, to¬ 
gether with two others, founded the Marion 
Gray Iron Foundry Company at Marion, of 
which he became secretary and treasurer. This 
was the beginning of a chain of foundries even¬ 
tually to come under the direct control and 
management of the subject of this sketch. 
Since first engaging independently in the gray 
iron foundry business he has not only acquired 
the Marion Gray Foundry Company but has 
also organized and ascended to the presidency 
of the Atlas Foundry Company at Marion, In¬ 
diana; the Gartland Foundry Company at Ter¬ 
re Haute, Indiana; the Peru Foundry Com¬ 
pany, at Peru, Indiana; the Kankakee Foundry 
Company, at Kankakee, Illinois; the Gartland- 
McCarthv Foundry Company, at Chicago. Il¬ 
linois; the Gartland-Danville Foundry Com¬ 
pany, at Danville, Illinois; the Gartland-Toledo 


Foundry Company, at Toledo, Ohio; the Gart- 
land-Carroll Foundry Company, at Sandusky, 
Ohio; the Gartland-IIaswell Foundry Company, 
at Sidney, Ohio; and the Gartland-Haswell 
Rentsehler Foundry Company at Dayton, Ohio. 

In addition to these enterprises Mr. Gart¬ 
land is also first vice-president and a director 
of the Dayton Malleable Iron Company, at 
Dayton, Ohio, which controls a chain of five 
malleable foundries; a director of the Marion 
Insulated Rubber & Wire Company of Marion, 
Indiana; and first vice president of the Stover 
Lumber Company at Mobile, Alabama. 

Before coming to Indianapolis, in April 
1920, he was also a member of the Board of Di¬ 
rectors of the Marion National Bank at Marion, 
Indiana, and was from October 1, 1919, presi¬ 
dent of the Columbian Insurance Company of 
Indiana, until it was merged, in 1923 with the 
Columbian National Fire Insurance Company, 
of Lansing, Michigan. 

In 1920 Mr. Gartland Avas one of the party 
of tAvo hundred and thirty-nine members of the 
Knights of Columbus Pilgrimage to visit the 
battle-scarred and blood stained fields of 
France, the Vatican Gardens in Ancient Rome, 
the consecrated grounds of Lourdes, the holy 
temples, cathedrals, ancient tombs, catacombs 
and historical points of interest to be seen in the 
Old World. The achievements of those 0A r er- 
seas representathes of the Knights of Colum¬ 
bus Avere varied and substantial and to those 
familiar Avith the details of the Pilgrimage, the 
most outstanding accomplishment doubtless Avas 
the tribute paid to France by the traA r elers, as 
Americans, in the presentation of the Lafayette 
statute at Metz, France. 

The marriage of Mr. Gartland to Miss Kath¬ 
erine E. Hyde took place at Springfield, Ohio. 
NoA r ember 6, 1884. To this union haA r e been 
born five children, four sons and one daughter. 

Mr. Gartland is a member of the Columbia 
Club, and the BeneAmlent Protective Order of 
Elks, No. 195—Marion, Indiana. His religious 
affiliation is in the Roman Catholic Church, be¬ 
ing a member of the Cathedral Parish of this 
city. 


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A. BENNETT GATES 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


A. BENNETT GATES 

BENNETT GATES, president of tlie Miami Hotel Company, 
operating the Hotel Miami at Dayton, Ohio, and until re¬ 
cently president of the Gates-McClellan Hotel Company, opera¬ 
tors of the Hotel Severin in Indianapolis, was born at Indianap¬ 
olis, Jnly 26, 1885, son of Harry B. and Caroline (Patrick) Gates, 
both deceased. 

The early education of Mr. Gates was obtained in the public 
schools of Indianapolis, after which he attended St. Paul’s School 
at Concord, New Hampshire and Yale University at New Haven, 
Connecticut. In 1904 he became associated with his father in the 
hotel business, becoming secretary of the Gates-McClelland Com¬ 
pany in 1912. In that capacity he continued until 1916 when, npon 
the death of his father, he became president of the company. In 
June, 1922, Mr. Gates sold his interests in the Gates-McClelland 
Company to devote his entire business energy to the operation of 
the Hotel Miami at Dayton, Ohio. Since that time, however, Mr. 
Gates has continued his residence in Indianapolis, maintaining his 
home at the University Club and his offices in the Fletcher Sav¬ 
ings & Trust Building. 

Mr. Gates is a member of the University Club, Kiwanis Club, 
Dramatic Club and Country Club, all of Indianapolis and the 
Miami Valley Hunt and Polo Club, Ye Buz Fuz Club, the Country 
Club and Bicycle Club, all of Dayton, Ohio. In the Masonic fra¬ 
ternity he is a member of Center Lodge, No. 23, F. & A. M. 

The marriage of Mr. Gates to Miss Lena Hemenwav took 
place at Washington, D. C., January 16, 1909. There are three 
children, Cynthia, James Hemenwav and Marjorie. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 



E. E. GATES 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDWARD E. GATES 


E DWARD E. GATES, member of the firm of 
Ralston, Gates, Lairy, VanNuvs and Barn¬ 
ard, attorneys, was born at Indianapolis. 
August 23, 1871, son of Alfred B. and Eliza¬ 
beth (Murdock) Gates. His grandfather, 
Avery Gates, located in Fayette County as 
early as 1807, considerably more than a cen¬ 
tury ago, and thus it may be said that the 
subject of this sketch is a representative of 
one of the few families of the state having 
more than a century of residence to their credit. 

The early education of Edward E. Gates 
was obtained in the public schools of Indianap¬ 
olis, after which he attended Yale College, 
from which he graduated in 1891 with the de¬ 
gree of Bachelor of Philosophy, and the New 
York Law School, from which he graduated in 
1894 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 
1895 he graduated from the Indiana Law 
School, since which time he has been continu¬ 
ously engaged in the practice of law. 

In 1895 Mr. Gates formed the firm of Gates 
& Plume which continued until the outbreak of 
the Spanish-American AVar in 1898 when Air. 
Gates volunteered and became a member of the 
Famous Indianapolis Field Artillery, known 
as the 27th Light Battery, Indiana Volunteers. 
This battery was called into actual service and 
was assigned to duties in the Porto Rican cam¬ 
paign. Its service closed with a rather drama¬ 
tic instance. The battery had been unlimbered 
and was on the point of firing upon Spanish 
posts when hostilities were halted by a truce 
pending the final conclusion of the war. 

Upon the conclusion of the Spanish-Ameri¬ 
can AVar, Air. Gates went to California and at 
San Francisco became Assistant Claims Attor¬ 
ney for the Southern Pacific Railroad under 
Air. AVilliam F. Herrin, Chief Counsel of that 
system. AYhen Brown Brothers, bankers of 
New A"ork, purchased the Alarket Street Rail¬ 
road System of San Francisco, Air. Gates be¬ 
came Claims Attorney of that corporation. 

In 1904 Air. Gates returned to Indianapolis 
and here in 1906 formed the firm of Ilenly, 
Alatson and Gates. Upon the retirement of 
Judge AVilliam J. Ilenly, in 1908, the firm be¬ 
came Alatson, Gates & Ross. In 1915 Air. Gates 
formed a partnership with the late Hon. Quincy 


A. Alyers, formerly upon the Supreme Court 
Bench of Indiana, which firm as Alyers & Gates, 
continued until 1917, when it became Alyers, 
Gates & Ralston. In 1922, upon the death of 
Judge Alyers, the firm was changed to Ralston, 
Gates, Lairy, Van Nuys & Barnard, the other 
members of the firm being elsewhere men¬ 
tioned in this publication. 

Out of his large and varied practice of law 
in Indiana, one particular case in which Air. 
Gates was actively identified can be recited as 
one of public interest and which will ever re- 
dount much to his credit. Prior to 1906 rail¬ 
roads had generally discriminated against the 
citizens of Indianapolis, giving to neighboring- 
cities special rates and privileges that consti¬ 
tuted an almost prohibitive burden upon the 
city. Protests and formal procedure seemed 
unavailing until the Indianapolis Freight Bur¬ 
eau, headed by the late Joseph Keavy, and the 
Chamber of Commerce employed Air. Gates as 
Chief Counsel to effect an equitable adjust¬ 
ment. lie entered the cause determined to ac¬ 
complish a change in the situation and ap¬ 
peared before the Interstate Commerce Com¬ 
mission fortified with an array of testimony 
and evidence and facts so indisputable that the 
commission rendered a decision in favor of the 
complainant with the result that hundreds of 
thousands of dollars have since been saved to 
tlie shippers of Indianapolis. 

As a Republican in politics Air. Gates has 
been actively identified with his party and 
was for two terms president of the Lincoln 
League. He is also widely known in civic and 
social affairs, being a member of the Chamber 
of Commerce, Columbia Club, Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, Alarion Club, Kiwanis Club, of 
which he was president 1918-19, Iloosier Athlet¬ 
ic Club, Academy of Alusic, the Royal Arcanum, 
Spanish AVar Veterans, Knights of Pythias 
Center Lodge No. 23 F. & A. AL, A r ork Rite and 
the Murat Temple of the Alystic Shrine. AVhen 
at A"ale College he was identified with the 
Berzelius Society. 

The marriage of Air. Gates to Aliss Dorothy 
Fay Adams took place at Chicago, Illinois, 
September 28, 1909. There are three children, 
Virginia, Edward, who is now associated with 
the firm of which his father is a member, and 
Elizabeth. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



FREDERICK E. GATES 


Photograph hy Dexlieimer 






INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FREDERICK E. GATES 


F REDERICK E. GATES, son of Austin B. and Emily (Thayer) Gates, 
born October 6, 1866, in Indianapolis, where he has devoted practically 
entire life to constructive work in the marble and tile industry. 


was 

his 


lie was educated in the public and high schools of Indianapolis and at the 
age of sixteen entered the employ of the United States Encaustic Tile Works 
with the intention of learning tile-work designing. After three years of ex¬ 
perience he qualified as a designer and in that capacity continued with the 
company until 1892. lie then accepted a position with the Star Encaustic Tile 
A orks of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but a year later returned to Indianapolis 
and again became associated with the United States Encaustic Tile Works in 
charge of the designing department. 


After a brief period in this work, however, Mr. Gates became connected with 
the Italian Marble Mosaic Works of Cincinnati, Ohio. This lasted for several 
years, or until 1898 when he came back to Indianapolis and in a small way estab¬ 
lished himself, under his own name, as a contractor for marble and tile con¬ 
struction. 


This business has grown steadily from its origin to the present time and at 
this writing the F. E. Gates Marble & Tile Company, which was incorporated 
in 1909, with Mr. Gates as president, occupies a conspicuous position in the 
commercial life of Indianapolis. In 1913 the company erected a plant at Bright- 
wood for the purpose of fabricating marble adjacent to the point of consump¬ 
tion and to avoid the annoying delays which had previously occurred in having 
fabrication done at distant places. So advantageous did this plant prove to be 
that in 1914 it was enlarged to its present capacity, making it one of the largest 
of its kind in this part of the country. 

Among the notable structures in Indianapolis with which the Gates con¬ 
cern has been identified are the following: Masonic Temple, Murat Temple, 
Scottish Rite Building, City Hall, Washington Hotel, Clavpool Hotel, Severin 
Hotel, Fletcher Savings & Trust Building, City Trust Building, Board of 
Trade, Hume-Mansur Building, Bankers Trust Building, Occidental Building, 
Consolidated Building, Peoples State Bank Building, Guaranty Building, the 
Columbia Club and the Indianapolis Athletic Club. 

The marble and tile work in the Indianapolis homes of Stoughton A. Fletch¬ 
er, James Allison, Carl G. Fisher, and Hugh McK. Landon was also done by 
the Gates Company. This concern Avas also identified with the courthouses in 
Jay County, Carroll County and DeKalb County, all of Indiana, and with 
similar buildings in Piatt County and Ford County, Illinois, as well as with the 
general hospital at Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Mr. Gates is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade, In¬ 
dianapolis Athletic Club and the National Association of Marble Dealers and 
Manufacturers. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, a Knights Templar and a Shriner 
of the Murat Temple. 

On August 15, 1888 Mr. Gates married Miss Belle M. Beatty who died 
November 26, 1916.* On April 9, 1918 he married Miss Isabel Pinnell of Leb¬ 
anon, Indiana. Mr. Gates has three daughters, Grace E. (Mrs. James II. Ander¬ 
son),’Dorothy W. (Mrs. Forest Iv. Paul), and Emily (Mrs. 0. E. Treace). The 
family home is at 1116 North New Jersey Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



E. J. GAUSEPOHL 


Photograph by Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDWARD J. GAUSEPOHL 

J^DW ARD J. GAI r SEPOHL, son of J. Fred and Mary Gause¬ 
pohl, was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, August 4, 1864. His 
education was obtained in the public schools of this city, after 
which he became engaged in the trunk and leather goods business, 
and in which he has been continuously identified to the present 
time. The store operated by Mr. Gausepohl is located at 38 West 
Washington Street under the name of E. J. Gausepohl & Com¬ 
pany. 

Mr. Gausepohl is an active Mason and associated with many 
of the leading fraternal, social and business organizations of this 
city. He is a member of the Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398, F. and A. 
M.; Indiana Consistory, S. P. P. S.; 32nd degree A. A. S. R.; Murat 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine; Keystone Chapter No. 6, R. A. At.; 
Raper Commandry No. 1, Knights Templar; Indianapolis Council 
No. 2, R. and S. M.; Indianapolis Lodge No. 13, B. P. 0. E.; Indi¬ 
anapolis Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis Club of Indianapolis, 
Optimist Club of Indianapolis, Advertising Club of Indianapolis, 
Hoosier Motor Club of Indianapolis, and the Indianapolis Athle¬ 
tic Club. He is also at this time president of the Merchants Asso¬ 
ciation. 

Of special interest in connection with the sketch of this sub¬ 
ject is the fact that from his boyhood he has been keenly inter¬ 
ested in music. Mr. Gausepohl has continuously belonged to some 
orchestra of the city since he was fifteen years of age and is at this 
time violinist in three different Indianapolis orchestras. To 
these, of course, he belongs merely for the personal enjoyment 
derived from his association with the other members of the orches¬ 
tra and their work. 

Mr. Gausepohl married Miss Minnie E. Fowler, June 3, 1891, 
at Indianapolis. There are three children: Lewis E., who is as¬ 
sociated with his father in business; Mrs. William (Marie) Rider, 
and Mrs. Richard (Helen) Madden. The family residence is at 
2363 Broadway. 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



JOHN A. GEORGE 


Photograph hy Bretsman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN A. GEORGE 

T OHX A. GEORGE, president of the Indianapolis Coal Company 
J and actively identified in executive capacities with a number 
of hotel and real estate enterprises of Indianapolis, was born in 
the western part of Bartholomew County, near Columbus, Indiana, 
October 9, 1869, son of Henry F. and Sarah A. (Mitchell) George. 
His education was limited to that received in the county schools of 
Bartholomew County, it becoming necessary for him to go to 
work when but eleven years of age in an endeavor to assist in the 
support of his mother and brothers. His first occupation was that 
of a newsboy and bootblack upon the streets of Columbus. Later, 
for a period of nine years, he engaged in the coal and bicycle busi¬ 
ness at Columbus and then, in 1900, he came to Indianapolis and 
here incorporated the Indianapolis Coal Company, of which he 
has continuously been the president. 

Of Mr. George it may be said that he exemplifies the success¬ 
ful self-made man. His father died when John A., of this review, 
was but eleven years old and since that time he has continuously 
advanced himself from the humble occupations previously noted 
to a position of more than usual prominence in the business and 
civic activities of the Hoosier capital. Not only has he brought 
about the existence of several substantial business enterprises but, 
in addition, he has ever been conscious of the city’s welfare and 
an active associate in many of the various charitable and philan¬ 
thropic undertakings of importance. 

In addition to his interests in the Indianapolis Coal Company, 
Mr. George is associated with the Brevort, Colonial, McKinley 
and Roosevelt hotel properties and a substantial holder of the real 
estate upon which these structures have been erected. 

Mr. George is a member of the Chambr of Commerce, Colum¬ 
bia Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Marion Club, Hoosier Ath¬ 
letic Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, Athenaeum, Kiwanis 
Club, of which he was president in 1916-1917; and the Indianap¬ 
olis Saddle Club, of which he is president at this writing. In the 
Masonic fraternity Mr. George is a member of Oriental Lodge, 
No. 500, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite, Knights Templar, Knights of 
Constantine and the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is 
also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



VERNON C. GETZ 


Photograph by Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


VERNON C. GETZ 

\7ERN0X C. GETZ, president and general manager of the 
v Southern Seed and Supply Company at 23-25 North Alabama 
Street, was born at Dunkirk, Ohio, August 27,1881, son of William 
IE and Jane E. (Greenhoe) Getz. In his native city he received 
his early education. This was supplemented with a course in 
business. 

In 1906 Mr. Getz became associated with the Underwood 
Typewriter Company as a salesman at the Fort Wayne, Indiana, 
branch. Within a few months he was appointed manager of that 
branch and as such continued until 1908. During 1909 he was 
engaged in implement and vehicle sales work and organization but 
near the close of that year came to Indianapolis as a salesman for 
the Indianapolis Corrugating Company. 

He became sales manager of the Indianapolis Corrugating 
Company in 1912 and a year later general manager of the com¬ 
pany, also acquiring a substantial interest in the business which 
engaged in the development and manufacturing of incubators. In 
1918, Mr. Getz disposed of his holdings in the company, however, 
but purchased from it the sales right of the products in incubators 
developed during his connection with the company. 

Mr. Getz then organized the Simplicity Incubator Corpora¬ 
tion of which he became the president and in which capacity he 
remained until the termination of his connections with the com¬ 
pany in 1919. During the eight years he was associated in the 
incubator business, Mr. Getz visited every state in the Union and 
was looked upon as an authority on incubators and their use in 
the poultry business. In fact, his writings on incubators have 
attracted world-wide attention among poultrymen. 

In 1919 Mr. Getz became associated with the Southern Seed 
& Supply Company. He was first sales manager, then vice-presi¬ 
dent and in 1922* became president. Field, garden and flower 
seeds and poultry supplies are distributed by his company. The 
company is also factory distributor for the Automatic Incubator. 
Mr. Getz’s other business interests include the Wonderly Mills. 
Inc., of Indianapolis, Indiana, of which he is the president. 

Mr. Getz is a member of the American Seedman’s Association, 
the American Poultry Association, the Indianapolis Chamber of 
Commerce and the Advertising Club of Indianapolis. He is a 
32nd degree Mason and a member of the Murat Temple of the 
Mystic Shrine. His religious affiliation is with the Methodist 
Church. 

The marriage of Mr. Getz to Miss Margaret West occurred at 
Indianapolis on December 16, 1907. They have two daughters, 
twins, Miss Vera Jane Getz and Miss Verne Jean Getz. The 
family home is at 3817 Kenwood Avenue. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph 

CARL C. GIBBS 


by George M. Edmondson 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CARL C. GIBBS 

£'• GIBBS, manager of the National Malleable Castings Company, 

was born in Rush County, Indiana, October 10, 1882, son of William W. 
Gibbs, a prosperous merchant of that county, and Carrie A. (Wikoff) Gibbs. 
In 1898 the family moved to Indianapolis, Air. Gibbs entering Shortridge High 
School, from which he was graduated in 1901. A post-graduate course was 
completed in 1902. After leaving high school he made a trip to Europe on an 
English cattle-boat, working his way for passage. 

The first business venture of Mr. Gibbs was in the insurance field, but a 
careful study of that business indicated that his calling did not lie in that line 
of work. So, in 1906, he became associated with the National Malleable Cast¬ 
ings Company in the capacity of correspondent in the Sales Department. The 
substantial position of this company in the business world and their high stand¬ 
ard of doing business appealed very strongly to him and he decided to make this 
his life work. 

For a period of four years he served as a correspondent in the Sales De¬ 
partment. Appreciating that a practical knowledge of a manufacturing busi¬ 
ness is essential to success, he asked for and was given permission to spend a 
year in the shops. At the end of this period he was made assistant to the sales 
manager and for the next eight years devoted his time to the selling of the 
product of the Indianapolis plant. 

In March, 1919, he was transferred to Cleveland, Ohio, in charge of the sales 
of the Cleveland plant and there remained until July, 1920, when on the death 
of the Indianapolis plant manager he was sent back to Indianapolis as manager 
in full charge of the Indianapolis plant. The company with which Mr. Gibbs 
is associated is the world’s greatest producer of malleable iron castings, operat¬ 
ing seven large plants located at Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis, 
Missouri; Toledo, Ohio, and Indianapolis, and two large steel plants, one at 
Sharon, Pennsylvania, and the other at Melnore Park, Illinois. The company 
is an Ohio corporation capitalized at $20,000,000. 

While in Shortridge High School, Mr. Gibbs was prominent in all branches 
of athletics. In recent years his fondness for outdoor sports has manifested 
itself in golf, to which he is very devoted and in which he has acquired a repu¬ 
tation in local and sectional tournaments. 

Mr Gibbs is a member ol the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Indian¬ 
apolis Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Columbia 
Club, the Country Club of Indianapolis, the Highland Golf and Country Club, 
and the Rotary Club. 

He married Miss June Hodson at Indianapolis November 24, 1910. The 
family home is at 3042 North Pennsylvania Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Moorefield 

A. M. GLOSSBRENNER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ALFRED M. GLOSSBRENNER 


A LFRED M. GLOSSBRENNER, president 
of the Levey Printing Company, was 
born August 15, 1869, at Jeffersonville, Indi¬ 
ana, son of William J. and Jane (Rowan) Gloss- 
brenner. His education was received in the 
public schools of Jeffersonville and Indianap¬ 
olis, his parents moving to Indianapolis in 1882. 
First as a newsboy and then cash boy in a 
large store, Air. Glossbrenner began his early 
business training. 

When eighteen years of age he joined the 
Levey Brothers & Co. printing house as book¬ 
keeper and general office man. In the eve 
nings after business hours he studied business 
subjects and his advancement with the print¬ 
ing house was rapid. He was subsequently 
selected secretary and treasurer, then vice- 
president and in 1915 president of the organ¬ 
ization. 

Mr. Glossbrenner is looked upon as the dean 
of bank advertising. In 1892 he founded a 
thrift magazine which is now distributed by 
banks in every state in the Union and which is 
considered one of the most outstanding medi¬ 
ums of bank advertising ever presented to a 
banking clientele. He was charter member of 
the United Typothetae of America, the national 
association of master printers, serving three 
years as treasurer, one year as vice-president, 
and as president in 19] 2-’13. He suggested and 
fostered the School of Printing which has been 
established in Indianapolis and which is an 
important institution in the printing trades. 

Long active in the Indianapolis Board of 
Trade, Mr. Glossbrenner was elected president 
of that organization in 1917-’18 and still con¬ 
tinues as a member of the governing board. 
For several years he was a member of the exe¬ 
cutive committee of the Indiana Manufactur¬ 
ers’ Association, and for eighteen years has 
been a director of the Associated Employes of 
Indianapolis. He is chairman of the Sinking 


Fund Commission for the City of Indianapolis, 
having been appointed to the commission by 
former Mayor Charles A. Bookwalter. Mr. 
Glossbrenner is a director of the Fletcher- 
American Company and the Century Life In¬ 
surance Company. 

He was a Republican representative in the 
Sixty-first General Assembly of the state of 
Indiana and was credited with being the po¬ 
litical sponsor of former United States Senator 
Albert J. Beveridge, who in that session of the 
legislature was first elected to the United 
States Senate. 

During the World War, Mr. Glossbrenner 
was one of the three members of the Indianap¬ 
olis executive committee for the Liberty Loan 
campaigns, organizing the city and county 
workers into the Marion County Legion under 
which system the workers exceeded their allott¬ 
ed quotas in the various loan drives. His eldest 
son, Capt. Daniel I. Glossbrenner, was a battery 
commander in the famous 150th Field Artil¬ 
lery, a unit of the Rainbow Division. Mr. 
Glossbrenner was the chairman of the Wel¬ 
come Home Celebration on May 7, 1919, at In¬ 
dianapolis on the occasion of the return of the 
150th Field Artillery and other units from 
France. 

Mr. Glossbrenner is a member of the Indi¬ 
anapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Indianap¬ 
olis Board of Trade, a member of the building 
committee of the new Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, a member of the University Club, a 
former treasurer and member of the Marion 
Club, a member of the Columbia Club, a Scot¬ 
tish Rite Mason, a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, 
and a Knights Templar. 

lie married Miss Minnie M. Stroup of 
Waldron, Indiana, on November 14, 1894. 
They have three children, Daniel Independ¬ 
ence, Alfred Stroup and George Levey. The 
family home is at 3210 North Meridian Street. 


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HON. JAMES P. GOODRICH 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. JAMES P. GOODRICH 



ON. JAMES PUTNAM GOODRICH, president of the Na- 


1 1 tional City Bank of Indianapolis, ex-governor of Indiana and 
a lawyer by profession, was born at Winchester, Indiana, Febru¬ 
ary 18, 1864, son of John Bell and Elizabeth Putnam (Edger) 
Goodrich. He attended the public schools of Winchester, graduat¬ 
ing from high school in 1881. After leaving high school he taught 
in a country school in Randolph County for a year and a half and 
then entered DePauw University in the fall of 1884. Funds run¬ 
ning low he was compelled to abandon his college course. He re¬ 
turned to Winchester and, after studying law for a time, was 
admitted to the bar in 1887. He continued the practice of law at 
Winchester until 19.10 when he came to Indianapolis and here 
became a member of the firm of Monks, Robbins & Goodrich. 
Since the fall of 1915 Mr. Goodrich has not been engaged in the 
practice. 

In 1908 Mr. Goodrich was appointed receiver of the old Chi¬ 
cago, Cincinnati and Louisville Railroad and served in that ca¬ 
pacity until 1911, when the road was sold to the Chesapeake & 
Ohio. His success in the management of this property resulted 
in his appointment, in 1912, as receiver of the Noekle-Richards 
Iron Works of Indianapolis and although the creditors of that 
concern had offered to accept forty cents on the dollar in settle¬ 
ment of their claims, they were paid a little more than eiglity-two 
cents in final settlement. 

In Republican politics Mr. Goodrich has occupied places of 
marked importance, having served from 1901 to 1909 as Republi¬ 
can state chairman and before that as Eighth District chairman. 
From 1912 to 1916 he was Republican national committeeman 
from Indiana and, from 1917 to 1921 was governor of the State. 
Mr. Goodrich has also served as a member of the Winchester 
School Board and since 1912 has been a trustee of Wabash Col¬ 
lege. In 1923 he was elected president of the National City Bank. 

Mr. Goodrich is a member of the Columbia Club and Phi 
Kappa Psi college fraternity; is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Ma¬ 
son and Knights of Pythias. 

The marriage of Mr. Goodrich to Cora I. Frist occurred on 
March 15, 1888. There is one son. Pierre F. Goodrich. 


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CLARENCE L. GOODWIN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 


CLARENCE LARUE GOODWIN 


C larence larue goodavin, president 

of the Indiana Veneer & Lumber Com¬ 
pany of Indianapolis and other corporations 
later mentioned, was born near Oakland, War- 
ren County, Kentucky, December 23, 1859, son 
of Dr. John M. and Delia B. (LaRue) Good¬ 
win. Ilis great-grandfather was Judge Wil¬ 
liam Goodwin, a native of Virginia and a sol¬ 
dier in General George Rogers Clark’s expedi¬ 
tion against the British and Indians of 1778. 
As a resident of Clark County, Indiana, from 
about the year 1800, he was appointed in 1801, 
or thereabouts, one of six .judges or associate 
justices for Indiana Territory, by General 
William Henry Harrison, then governor of the 
Indiana Territory, and in that office, and as 
Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions, served 
for a period of twenty-three years. A grand¬ 
father, John Goodwin of Clark County, Indi¬ 
ana, served in the Tippecanoe Indian War, 
while another ancestor, Captain Leonard 
Helm, was a conspicuous army officer—serving 
in the expedition of General Clark above re¬ 
called. 

Clarence LaRue Goodwin, of this sketch, 
obtained his early education at Butler College 
at Indianapolis, after which he attended In¬ 
diana University, from which he was grad¬ 
uated in 1883. As a representative of Indiana 
University in the intercollegiate oratorical 
contest of 1882 he was awarded first place and 
the honor of representing the state of Indiana 
in the interstate oratorical contest of that year. 
During 1885 and 1886 he served as a reporter 
on the Indianapolis Times and Indianapolis 
Journal, following which he was successivelv, 
from 1886 to 1890, telegraph editor, editorial 
writer and associate editor of the Los Angeles 
Evening Express—Los Angeles, California. 

Upon the conclusion of his newspaper ex¬ 
perience Mr. Goodwin, in 1891, entered the 
business of manufacturing lumber in Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania, and in this business in 


Indiana, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, he 
has been continuously and actively engaged 
to this writing. He has also been actively in¬ 
terested for a number of years in coal mining 
in Raleigh County, West Virginia, and in tim¬ 
ber lands in Tennessee and Arkansas. Since 
1912, Mr. Goodwin has been president of the 
Indiana Veneer & Lumber Company of this 
city, although in addition to this enterprise he 
is president of the Lywin Coal Company, 
AVinding Gulf, West Virginia; president of 
the Del Rio Lumber Company of Tennessee, 
president of the Boswell Lumber Company, 
New Florence, Pennsylvania, and of other cor¬ 
porations. He is also a director of the Young 
Men’s Christian Association of Greensburg, 
Pennsylvania, and a director of the Barclay- 
AVestmorelancl Trust Company of the same 
place. 

Air. Goodwin’s early political affiliation was 
with the Democratic Party. In 1896 he served 
as a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Na¬ 
tional (Gold) Democratic Convention and dur¬ 
ing that time took an active part in Democratic 
politics in the state of Pennsylvania. Since 
1900, however, he has been a Republican. Dur¬ 
ing the World War, Air. Goodwin served as a 
member of the Executive Committee of West¬ 
moreland County, Pennsylvania, in the several 
Liberty and Victory Loan campaigns. He is a 
member of the Disciples, or Christian Church, 
and of the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity; 
is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Alason, a mem¬ 
ber of the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, and 
of the Greensburg Country Club and the Ilan- 
nastown Golf Club of Greensburg, Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 

The marriage of Air. Goodwin to Aliss Har¬ 
riet Kuhns occurred at Greensburg, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, November 17, 1885. There are three 
children, Airs. D. F. Alullane (Helen L.), of 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; John K. and Aliss 
Alary H. 


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Photograph by Strauss — St. Louis. 

MORTON L. GOULD 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


MORTON L. GOULD 

M ORTON L. GOULD, president of the Linton Coal Company 

and for many years actively identified with the coal industry, 
was born at Terre Haute, Indiana, April 8, 1861, son of Delos N. 
and Anna (Lange) Gould. His early education was obtained in 
the public schools of Terre Haute, after which he attended Indi¬ 
ana University at Bloomington. 

Upon the completion of his college work, Mr. Gould was 
variously associated as a Merchandise Broker at St. Paul, Minne¬ 
sota, and Omaha, Nebraska, from 1885 to 1888. In 1895 he entered 
the coal business, being from 1900 to 1905 vice-president and man¬ 
ager of the L. T. Dickason Coal Company and from 1906 to 1912 
vice-president and general manager of the Shirley Hill Coal Com¬ 
pany. In 1912 he organized the Gould Coal Washing and Mining 
Company and of that corporation was continuously the president 
until 1917. In the year last mentioned the company was sold to 
other interests, although, in 1916, Mr. Gould formed the Linton 
Coal Company, of which he has since been the president and 
manager. 

In addition to this association, Mr. Gould is director of the 
United Fourth Vain Coal Company, a director of the National 
Coal Association and a member of the Executive Committee of 
the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association, of which 
organization he was president from 1920 to 1923. 

The marriage of Mr. Gould to Miss Clara Dickason, of Dan¬ 
ville, Illinois, took place February 11, 1889. She died July 13, 
1891, leaving one son, John Dickason, now associated with his 
father in business. On August 3, 1897, Mr. Gould married Miss 
Adah Dickason at Chicago, Illinois. To this union has been born 
one daughter, Miss Elizabeth Gould. 


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T. S. GRAVES 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


THOMAS S. GRAVES 

""THOMAS S. GRAVES, until the time of his death, November 

7, 1922, was senior member of the live stock commission firm 
of Graves, Nave & Company. He was the son of Edward H. and 
Elizabeth (Wells) Graves and was born at Fayette County, Ken¬ 
tucky, on June 28, 1852. His great-grandfather settled in Nelson 
County, Kentucky, in the latter part of the eighteenth century 
when that part of the United States was sparsely inhabited. 

Educated at Transylvania University at Lexington, Ken¬ 
tucky, and the old Northwestern Christian University, now But¬ 
ler College, Mr. Graves became associated in the live stock com¬ 
mission business immediately after receiving his university train¬ 
ing. He specialized in the sale of mules for some years, and in 
1876 he became a partner in the firm of Michael Sells & Company, 
one of the prominent commission firms at the Union Stock Yards. 
At the death of Mr. Sells in 1903, Mr. Graves founded the firm of 
Graves, Nave & Company. 

His activity in the live stock commission industry in Indi-» 
anapolis is reflected by the fact that he is credited with having 
sold during his life-time, more live stock at the yards than any 
other one individual. Twice he was president of the Indianapolis 
Live Stock Exchange, the first term in 1887 and the second term 
in 1897. He was president of the National Live Stock Exchange 
from 1908 to 1910, and during his presidency the national organi¬ 
zation became an important factor in both the live stock and 
general business of the United States. 

Mr. Graves and Miss Emma Sells were married at Indianap¬ 
olis in 1876. Mrs. Graves died in 1893. He married Mrs. Emma 
Grooms Pearson of Indianapolis in 1905. There are two sons, 
Edward M. Graves and Max E. Graves. The family home is at 
2121 North New Jersey Street. 

He was a member of Masonic organizations, the Indianapolis 
Chamber of Commerce and the Christian Church. His library 
was one of the finest and most complete in the city and he used to 
find much pleasure with books. He was also an enthusiastic mo¬ 
torist. 


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OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Brctzman 

CHARLES A. GREATHOUSE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CHARLES A. GREATHOUSE 

A'HARLES A. GREATHOUSE, secretary-ti •easurer of the 
^ Bookwalter-Ball-Greathouse Printing Company and for 
many years actively identified with Democratic politics of the 
State and Nation, was born on a farm near Mt. Vernon, Posey 
County, Indiana, July 17, 1869, son of Benjamin Franklin and 
Bethenv (Welborn) Greathouse. He attended the district school 
in Posey County and the high school of Mt, Vernon, and then, from 
1886 to 1888, the Central Normal College at Danville, Indiana. 
Upon the completion of this schooling he taught school for a period 
of one year in Posev County and for six months in Hendricks 
County. He was then for two years superintendent of the Boys 
School at Plainfield, resigning this position to enter Indiana 
University. 

For one year (1894 to 1895) Mr. Greathouse taught in the 
elementary high school of Mt. Vernon, resigning also this position 
to accept the county superintendency of schools, to which position 
he was elected in 1895. For ten years he served as county superin¬ 
tendent, resigning in 1905 to accept the presidency of the Peoples 
Bank & Trust Company. In 1908 he moved to Indianapolis and 
was appointed by Governor Thomas R. Marshall, on November 
10, 1910, to fill out the unexpired term of Robert J. Aley, State 
Superintendent of Public Instruction. In the fall of 1910 he was 
elected to the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruc¬ 
tion, re-elected in the fall of 1912 and for a third term re-elected 
in the fall of 1914. 

Important legislation inactcd during the administration of 
Mr. Greathouse provided for uniform high school text books, state 
high school inspector, vocational education, pensions, improved 
wage standards and a motification of licenses. 

In 1920 Mr. Greathouse was elected chairman of the Demo¬ 
cratic State Central Committee and is at this time National Demo¬ 
cratic Committeeman from Indiana. 

In addition to the business activities already mentioned, Mr. 
Greathouse was for a period of years president of the Peoples 
Bank and Trust Company and director of the First National 
Bank, both of Mt. Vernon, Indiana; is a member of the Phi Delta 
Theta college fraternity, University Club, Indiana Democratic 
Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Woodstock Country Club, and 
the Highland Golf and Country Club. In the Masonic fraternities 
he is identified with Pentalplia Lodge, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite, 
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine and the Knights of Pythias. 

The marriage of Mr. Greathouse to Miss Erma Ribeyre, of 
New Harmony, Indiana, occurred at that place November 4, 1903. 
There are two children, Charles and Harriet. Mr. and Mrs. Great- 
house reside at 3160 North Pennsylvania Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



CHARLES P. GREENEN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CHARLES P. GREENEN 


HARLES P. GREENEN, president of the Kruse & Dewenter 



Company, was born at Richmond, Indiana, on February 11, 
1871, son of Joseph W. Greenen and Sarah Cecelia (Ryan) 
Greenen. 

Mr. Greenen lias lived in Indianapolis all his life, receiving 
his education in the city’s public schools and college education at 
Butler College. He engaged in railroad work until 1901, when 
he became superintendent of the Kruse & Dewenter Company, 
furnace manufacturers and steam and hot water plant builders, at 
427-429 East Washington Street. 

In 1908 the business was incorporated under the same name* 
and Mr. Greenen became a director and secretary of the company. 
On the death of Mr. Dewenter, in 1916, Mr. Greenen was chosen 
president of the company. 

Mr. Greenen and Miss Amelia Dewenter were married at In¬ 
dianapolis on January 18, 1899, and have two sons, Charles De¬ 
wenter Greenen and Robert Herman Greenen. The family home 
is at 1340 North Alabama Street. 

Mr. Greenen is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the 
Kiwanis Club of Indianapolis. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



CHARLES F. GREGG 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CHARLES F. GREGG 


C HARLES F. GREGG, secretary and treasurer of Gregg & Son, Inc., dyers 
and cleaners, was born at Whatcheer, Iowa, November 14, 1882, son of Wil¬ 
liam A\ . and Elizabeth (Cook) Gregg. His education was obtained in the pub¬ 
lic schools of Chicago, his parents moving to that city when Mr. Gregg was a 
youth. 


After completing his schooling he entered the office of the Glucose Sugar 
Refining Company at Chicago, but later became associated with the department 
store of Mandel Brothers. In this position he became familiar with textiles and 
fabrics used in the tailoring of clothes and a few years later joined his father 
and brother in establishing a tailoring business at Memphis, Tennessee. He 
then joined the Ed Hart Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, chain clothing store 
operators, first as general stockman, then later as an estimator and director of 
the window displays. 


Mr. Gregg came to Indianapolis in 1906, forming a tailoring business, but a 
year later interested bis father in joining him in founding a dyeing and clean¬ 
ing business. Their first shop was at Washington Street and Kentucky Avenue. 
A bicycleman delivered the work in 1907, but today ten motor trucks are en¬ 
gaged in the delivery service. Their business grew rapidly until now they 
have one of the most complete, modern plants in the United States and an or¬ 
ganization of eighty persons. 


By the standardization of routine work and the creation of close co-opera¬ 
tion between employer and employee, the Greggs have established a business 
which has been widely copied in the dyeing and cleaning industry. The Gregg 
service has been termed “Greggorizing,” a process to which is added every 
advanced method and innovation created in the industry. 


The business was incorporated in 1911 as Gregg & Son, Inc., with W. AY. 
Gregg as president, Lillian T. Gregg, vice-president, and Charles F. Gregg, sec¬ 
retary and treasurer. The company is a member of the International Technical 
Society of Dyers and Cleaners, an association of ten leading dyers and cleaners 
affiliated with the Mellon Institute of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in scientific 
research. Air. Gregg is secretary and treasurer of the Indiana Dyers’ Associa¬ 
tion, vice president of the National Association of Dyers and Cleaners, a member 
of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the 
Mystic Shrine, and is a 3nd degree Mason. lie is a Methodist, His political 
affiliation is with the Republican party. 


Mr.Gregg married Miss Lillian Tebbe at Indianapolis on July 8, 1911. The 
family home is at 2265 North Meridian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



OREN S. HACK 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


OREN S. HACK 


O REN S. HACK, attorney, was born on a 
farm in Moral Township, Shelby County, 
Indiana, April 1, 1876, son of John A. and Jane 
''Smith) Hack. Ilis boyhood was spent on the 
home farm and such early education as he was 
able to acquire was obtained from the district 
schools of the county of his birth. The rise 
of the subject of this sketch to the position of 
independence and definite success has not been 
one marked by apathy or ease, for he has been 
significantly a builder of bis own fortunes and 
has risen to a position of prominence in his 
profession only through his own personal ef¬ 
forts. As a means of preparing himself for 
Ihe broader field of endeavor, he began teach¬ 
ing in the district schools when but seventeen 
years of age. In this work he was engaged for 
a period of two years after which, for four 
years, he was a teacher in the high schools in 
the village of Boggstown, Shelby County, In¬ 
diana. 

In 1896 Mr. Hack was graduated, with the 
degree of Bachelor of Science, from the In¬ 
diana Central Normal College at Danville, In¬ 
diana, through which he worked his own way. 
He then entered the law department of the 
same institution, where he completed the pre¬ 
scribed course and graduated in 1898, with the 
degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the same year 
he was admitted to the practice of law before 
the Indiana bar, but, desirous of still further 
fortifying himself in the knowledge of the 
science of legal practice, took a post graduate 
course in the law department of the University 
of Indianapolis, from which he likewise re¬ 
ceived the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1901. 
While a student in the Central Normal College, 
Mr. Hack maintained and provided for a club 
of students through which means he was en¬ 
abled to defray his expenses. 


In March, 1899, Mr. Hack came to Indi¬ 
anapolis and here became associated with Hon. 
Leonard J. Hackney, a former Associate Jus¬ 
tice of the Supreme Court of Indiana and now 
vice-president of the New York Central Rail¬ 
road. He was associated with Judge Hackney 
until April 1, 1903, when he formed a partner¬ 
ship with Mr. Elliott R. Ilooten under the firm 
name of Ilooten & Hack, with whom he was 
continuously in practice until the death of Mr. 
Ilooten, September 9, 1916, when the firm was 
dissolved and since which time Mr. Hack has 
engaged in private practice. 

Mr. Hack has for many years been actively 
interested in civic affairs and prominently 
identified with the Democratic party. He 
served as president of the Indiana Democratic 
Club, served for two terms as Deputy City At¬ 
torney under the administration of Mayor John 
W. lloltzman from 1903 to 1905, and was 
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney of Marion Coun¬ 
ty from January 1, 1907 to January 17, 1910. 
Mr. Hack is a member of the Indianapolis, In¬ 
diana State and American Bar Associations, 
Indiana Democratic Club, The Pioneers Society 
of Indiana, Improved Order of Red Men, Elks, 
and in the Masonic fraternity is a member of 
Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. M., Scottish 
Rite, Knights Templar, and Murat Temple of 
the Mystic Shrine. 

On the 16th of June, 1908, Mr. Hack was 
married to Miss Elizabeth Miller, who has at¬ 
tained marked distinction as one of the brilliant 
authors in America. Under her maiden name 
she is well and widely known as the author of 
four especially fine literary productions— 
books entitled respectively, “Saul of Tarsus,” 
“City of Delight,” “The Yoke,” and “Day¬ 
break.” To Air. and Mrs. Hack have been born 
three children, Elizabeth Virginia, who died in 
1916, John and Eleanor M. 


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DR MURRAY N. HADLEY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. MURRAY N. HADLEY 

TNR. MURRAY N. HADLEY, who lias for many years devoted 

liis professional practice to surgery and in which he has 
achieved a position of marked esteem among those with whom he 
has been associated, was born on a farm in Hendricks County, 
Indiana, July 21, 1871, son of David and Sarah (Morris) Hadley. 
He secured his preliminary education in the public schools of the 
county of his birth, following which he attended Earlham College 
at Richmond, Indiana, from which lie graduated in 1898, with the 
degree of Bachelor of Science. Immediately upon the conclusion 
of this course of study he taught school at Fairmount, Indiana, 
for a period of one year, during which time he was also principal 
of the high school at that place. 

In the fall of 1899, Dr. Hadley entered the Indiana Medical 
College—now the Medical Department of the University of In¬ 
diana—and from that institution graduated in 1903, with the 
degree of Doctor of Medicine. During the following year Dr. 
Hadley was resident interne at the Indianapolis City Hospital. 
He then went to Colorado and at (Telluride) in that state, devoted 
himself for a period of five years to the general practice of medi¬ 
cine and the operation of a hospital, of which he was principal 
owner. In 1909 Dr. Hadley returned to Indianapolis and in this 
city he has since continuously confined himself, as previously 
stated, to the practice of surgery. 

Dr. Hadley is a member of the Columbia Club, Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, Indianapolis Medical Society, Indiana State Medi¬ 
cal Society, American Medical Association, Ohio Yalley Medical 
Association, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. 
In the Masonic fraternity he is a member of Telluride Lodge, No. 
56, F. & A. M. and a Knights Templar. 

The marriage of Dr. Hadley to Miss Florence Henley took 
place at Carthage, Indiana, June 21, 1906. There are three chil¬ 
dren, Frederick, William and David. The Hadley residence is at 
3132 North New Jersey Street. 


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Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 

FRANK J. HAIGHT 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRANK J. HAIGHT 


IT RANK J. HAIGHT, Consulting Actuary, was born in Albion, Michigan, 
Sept. 2b, 1877, son of Arthur M. and Pearl A. (Hunsiker) Haight. Ilis 
education was obtained in the Albion public schools and at Albion College. 
After a short teaching experience, he entered the insurance business as a sales¬ 
man and in 1905 came to Indianapolis as assistant superintendent of agents for 
the American Central Life Insurance Co. In the meantime he had become 
interested in the actuarial branch of the business and had studied along that 
line with the result that when he left the American Central two years later to 
become associated in the organization of a new company, he gave up agency 
work and was made actuary and office manager of the new company. In addi¬ 
tion to this he did some consulting work, which grew to such proportions that 
in 1910 lie gave up his position to open an independent office and devote all his 
time to it. 


The actuarial profession is concerned with the technical side of insurance 
and the consulting actuary serves both companies and state insurance depart¬ 
ments. In the making of audits and examinations; in preparation of rates, 
policy forms, office systems and annual statements; and in the capacity of 
advisor and general counselor, he plays a vital part in the administration of 
insurance affairs. 

After establishing the Indianapolis office, Air. Ilaight opened a branch 
office in Des Moines for the convenience of Western clients. Through these 
organizations he has been able to render service to some sixteen state insur¬ 
ance departments and a large number of insurance companies in various parts 
of the country. 

lie is one of a small number of men devoting themselves entirely to con¬ 
sulting work in the actuarial profession and aside from possibly one or two 
offices located in the extreme East, he maintains the largest offices of the 
kind in the United States. 

Air. Ilaight is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Columbia Club, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, Country Club of Indianapolis, Des Moines Club at 
Des Moines, Iowa, and in the Masonic fraternity is affiliated with Pentalpha 
Lodge No. 564 F. & A. M. Indiana Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Murat 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Indiana Association 
of Certified Accountants, a Fellow in the American Institute of Actuaries and 
an active member of the Fraternal Actuarial Association. 

The marriage of Mr. Ilaight to Miss Laura Frances Bradley occurred at 
Augusta, Michigan, June 5, 1901. There are three children, Helen Elizabeth, 
now a student at Butler College; John Bradley, now a student at the Univer¬ 
sity of Michigan, and Laura Frances in school at Tudor Hall. The Haight fam¬ 
ily residence is at 145 East Fall Creek Boulevard. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



DR. WM. CAMPBELL HALL 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 


WILLIAM CAMPBELL HALL, D. 0. 

WILLIAM CAMPBELL HALL, I). 0., is a native of the 
Hoosier State, having been born at Brazil, Indiana, August 
15, 1880, son of William C. and Julia A. (Jackson) Hall. The 
early education of the subject of this sketch was obtained in the 
public schools of the city of his birth, after which he attended the 
American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, from 
which he graduated in 1901, with the degree of Doctor of 
Osteopathy. 

In December, 1911, Dr. Hall came to Indianapolis and in this 
city he has since continued the practice of osteopathy in which he 
lias attained to a position of high regard among those with whom 
he has become associated. 

In addition to the general practice of osteopathy Dr. Hall 
was, for two years—1917 and 1918—in attendance at the Indiana 
Medical School at Indianapolis, during which time he studied gen¬ 
eral medicine as applied to the practice of his chosen profession. 

Dr. Hall is a member of the American Osteopathic Associa¬ 
tion, Indiana Osteopathic Association and the Indianapolis Os¬ 
teopathic Association, being president of the last mentioned at 
this time. He is also a member of the Highland Golf and Country 
Club, Kiwanis Club, Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. M., Scot¬ 
tish Rite and the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

The marriage of Dr. Hall to Miss Lorette Rink took place at 
Indianapolis June 2, 1917. There are three children, Joanne, 
Rosalie and Dorothy Mae. 


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J. C. HARDESTY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JAMES C. HARDESTY 

TAMES C. HARDESTY, president of the J. C. Hardesty Manu- 
J factoring Company, 219 West Vermont Street, was born at 
Mnmfordville, Kentucky, March 31, 1873, son of William H. and 
Mary (VanLier) Hardesty. 

The early education of the subject of this sketch was obtained 
in the public schools of Rockport, Indiana, to which city Mr. 
Hardesty was removed by his family when but a few years of age. 
This preliminary education was supplemented by a course in a 
business college at Louisville, Kentucky, which was completed 
in 1891. 

Immediately following the completion of the business college 
course, Mr. Hardesty removed to Denver, Colorado, where he en¬ 
gaged, for a period of approximately twenty-five years, in the 
manufacture of flavoring extracts. In 1918 he returned to Indi¬ 
anapolis and in this city organized the J. C. Hardesty Company, 
of which he has been continuously the president. 

The J. C. Hardesty Company is primarily engaged in the 
manufacture of concentrated Extract of Vanilla, specializing in 
the one flavor, which it distributes among the wholesale con¬ 
sumers in practically every state of the Union. 

The organization also manufactures the Hardesty Improved 
Syrup Percolator, a chemical apparatus for making syrup, by 
what is known as “the Cold Process”; that is, without the use of 
heat. This item is extensively used by the drug trade, soda foun¬ 
tains and pharmaceutical laboratories in all parts of the country. 

The marriage of Mr. Hardesty to Miss Gertrude Miller oc¬ 
curred at Evansville, Indiana, August 31, 1901. There are three 
children: Mary O’Byrne, Gertrude Millrush and Louise VanLier. 
The family residence is at 512 Central Court, South. 

Mr. Hardesty is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Co¬ 
lumbia Club, and the Kiwanis Club. 


INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



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WALTER B. HARDING 


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WALTER B. HARDING 


YV7ALTER B. HARDING, son of Thomas and Margaret 
W (Davies) Harding, was born in 1872 at Cheshire, England, 
and to him falls the distinction of being one of the few men in¬ 
cluded in this publication to claim English soil as the place of birth. 

The subject of this sketch has had an interesting career. His 
early education was attained at Wellington College, England, 
from which he graduated in time to accept civil service appoint¬ 
ment. Under this he served until 1903. 


Leaving England at that time. Mr. Harding came directly to 
Indianapolis, where he began work with the company of which 
he is now the president. His first position was that of supervisor 
of branch accounts. He then successfully held the positions of 
purchasing agent, advertising manager, assistant treasurer, secre¬ 
tary, and, in 1915, became a director. In April, 1918, he was 
appointed president. 


The G & J factory is one of the tire division factories of the 
United States Rubber Company, and probably is the largest auto¬ 
mobile tube unit in the world. In addition to the production of 
tubes, the company also manufactures extensively bicycle and 
motorcycle tires, repair material, and tire accessories. 

Mr. Harding applied for first citizenship papers within a 
year after coming to the United States, and became a fully natur¬ 
alized citizen of the United States as quickly as the operation of 
the law allowed. He is one of the founders of the Victorian So¬ 
ciety and was president from 1915 to 1920. This club was formed 
as an embracive society for all persons born under the British 
flag, regardless of nationality or territory. It is one of the dis¬ 
tinctive clubs of this country. 

During the war, Mr. Harding was chairman of the Rubber 
Industries Section of the Automobile Division of this state. This 
was only one of his patriotic activities at that time. He was a 
member of the Industries Committee of the Chamber of Com¬ 
merce in 1919-20-21-22, and is now a member of the Finance Com¬ 
mittee of the same civic organization. In 1921 he was president of 
the Elks’ Realty Company. 

Under the Grand Lodge of England he received his first 
degree in Masonry in 1893. He is a member of the Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, Athenaeum, Hoosier Motor Club, Rubber Club of 
America, Kiwanis Club, and the “Hodie Mihi” Club of England. 


Mr. Harding married Miss Gertrude Ellison Tweedale, No¬ 


vember 16,1910, at Indianapolis. Jack Harding, a 
child. The family lives at 3545 Evergreen Avenue. 


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EDWARD W. HARRIS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDWARD W. HARRIS 


17 DU ARD W. HARRIS, secretary and treasurer of Hamilton, 
Harris & Company, was born at St. Louis, Missouri, April 
17. 1875. son of Thomas I). and Sarah R. (Woods) Harris. His 
early education was obtained in the public schools of the city of 
his birth, after which he attended the Manual Training* School of 
Washington University, at St. Louis, from which he graduated 
in 1893. 


Upon the completion of the above mentioned, Mr. Harris was 
variously employed until 1895 when he became associated with the 
Drummond Tobacco Company of St. Louis and with which com¬ 
pany he was connected when he came to Indianapolis, as sales 
representative for that concern on July 5, 1898. 

When the Drummond Tobacco Company, together with others, 
was merged with the American Tobacco Company, Mr. Harris 
became sales manager for Indiana and in that capacity served 
until January 1, 1906, when he engaged in the wholesale cigar and 
tobacco business under the corporate name of Hamilton, Harris 
& Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer. 

In addition to this association Mr. Harris is a director of the 
Security Trust Company, treasurer and director of the Hoosier 
Motor Club and vice-president of the Indianapolis Council Boy 
Scouts of America. He is a member of the Highland Golf and 
Country Club, Meridian Hills Country Club, Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, Columbia Club, Rotary Club, Hoosier Motor 
Club, Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade, the Art Association 
and the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, of which he is an elder 
and treasurer. 

In the Masonic fraternities he is a member of Mystic Tie 
Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite, Raper Commandery, 
Knights Templar, Grotto, Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine, 
and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 13. 

The marriage of Mr. Harris to Miss Lulu P. Mier took place 
in St. Louis, Missouri, October 17, 1900. There are five children, 
Luise N., Elizabeth Eugenia, Edward W., Jr., Jeanette M., and 
Omie Alma. Mr. and Mrs. Harris reside at 3510 Washington 
Boulevard. 


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O. D. HASKETT 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ORLANDO D. HASKETT 

RLANDO D. HASKETT, president of the 0. D. Haskett Lumber Com¬ 
pany and one of the most prominent men in Ifoosier business circles, was 
born of Quaker parentage, October 30, 1868, in Hamilton County, Indiana, son 
of Daniel Y. and Hannah B. (Day) Haskett. After completing the work re¬ 
quired by the common schools in the vicinity of his birth, he attended the 
T nion High Academy, an institution of Quaker denomination at Westfield, 
Indiana, from which he graduated at the age of twenty. 

After one year on a Nebraska farm, he entered the lumber business with his 
brother-in-law at Westfield, where for three years he was thus occupied. In 
the latter part of 1893, however, he entered the retail lumber business for him¬ 
self at Cicero, Indiana. For nine years he conducted this business. In 1903 he 
came to Indianapolis, established the Adams-Carr Company, known now as the 
Adams-Rogers Company (wholesale sash and door business), and remained at 
the head of this company for six years. He then spent five years with the 
Burnet-Lewis Lumber Company of this city and, in 1914, established the 0. D. 
Haskett Lumber Company, of which he is the president and active head. 

Since coming to Indianapolis, Mr. Ilasket has been prominently identified 
with civic affairs. He was president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce 
in 1914, and served as a member of the board of directors of that organization 
for a period of six years. In connection with his business and its relation to 
national organizations of the same nature, he has held positions of distinction, 
being president of the Greater Indianapolis Industrial Association since 1916, 
and president of the Associated Employers in 1922. He is also a member of 
the executive committee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association, 
which has headquarters in Chicago. 

Mr. Haskett was president of the Optimist Club in 1919. lie is a director 
of the National City Bank and of the Iloosier Motor Club; member of the Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce, Columbia Club, Marion Club, Meridian Hills Country Club, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, Kiwanis Club, Optimist Club; a director of the Indi¬ 
ana Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association; a member of the Fourth Presbyterian 
Church; Past Chancellor of Goodwill Lodge No. 175, Knights of Pythias, Cicero, 
Indiana; a member of Ancient Land Marks Lodge No. 319, F. and A. M.; Key¬ 
stone Chapter; Indianapolis Council, Raper Commandery, the Scottish Rite, and 
Mystic Shrine. 

On May 8, 1890, Mr. Haskett married Miss Elma Talbert at Westfield. 
There is one child, a daughter, Reba E. (Mrs. Forest L. Miars). 

The family lives at 1915 Central Avenue. The offices of the 0. D. Haskett 
Lumber Company are at Twenty-fifth Street and the Lake Erie & Western 

Railroad. 


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ROBERT H. HASSLER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ROBERT H. HASSLER 


D OBERT II. HASSLER, president and general manager of Robert H. Hass- 
ler, Inc., of Indianapolis, one of the largest manufacturers of automobile 
shock absorbers in the world, has been prominently identified with the engi- 
neeiing profession for more than thirty years, during which period he has been 
connected with the mechanical, electrical and experimental departments of some 
of America s largest corporations in important capacities. 


lie was born December 26, 1872, at Dayton, Ohio, of American ancestry. 
Ilis father, Daniel Kiefer Ilassler, was a successful merchant of Dayton. Ohio. 
Mother, Kate R. (Hanitch) Ilassler (deceased). 


Robert H. Ilassler received his earlier education at the Dayton High 
School, later entering Ohio State University, from which he was graduated in 
1892 with the degree of Mechanical Engineer. lie then entered the employ of 
the AY estinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company at Pittsburgh, and during 
this period made several inventions for that company which were important 
factors in its development. 

In 1898 Mr. Ilassler was employed by the New York Electric Cab Com¬ 
pany of New A ork City, in experimental and engineering lines, and he obtained 
in this way his first experience in automobile work. He next accepted a posi¬ 
tion with the A\ averlv Company, of Indianapolis, and in 1899 to 1902 designed 
and developed the AY averlv electric vehicles. At that period the possibilities of 
the gasoline car were beginning to loom up, and Mr. Ilassler associated himself 
with a group of Indianapolis business men in forming the Marion Motor Com¬ 
pany. In 1905 he went to Chicago with McCord & Company, and in 1907 ac¬ 
cepted a position with the Ford Motor Company as assistant to Mr. Walter 
Flanders, then production manager of the Ford plant. 

In 1909 Mr. Ilassler returned to Indianapolis, and with Arthur C. Newby, 
James A. Allison and Carl G. Fisher formed the Empire Automobile Com¬ 
pany, the object being to produce a car of lightweight and low cost. During 
the years 1912-1913 he was connected in an engineering capacity with Nordyke 
& Marmon, and carried on considerable experimental work in the development 
of the Marmon car. 


During his entire automobile experience it was Mr. Ilassler’s hobby to pay 
particular attention to the riding qualities of the cars with which he was work¬ 
ing, and in all the wide ranges of design that these cars represented he was 
always a tireless worker with improved forms of spring suspensions and dif¬ 
ferent kinds of shock absorbers. As a result of these efforts, he owns a group 
of nearly fifty patents that dominate, to a large extent, this branch of the 
industry. The commercial exploitation of these patents started in 1913, when 
he put his first Ford shock absorbers on the market. Since that date improve¬ 
ments have been made and types developed for other cars with the idea of pro¬ 
ducing a comprehensive line of shock absorbers for all cars. His manufacturing 
plants, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, are 
regarded as models of efficient production and up-to-date methods. 

Mr. Ilassler is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Rotary 
Club, Columbia Club, University Club, Country Club, Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, Rolling Ridge Polo Club, and Hoosier Athletic Club of Indianapolis; 
Miami Valley Hunt and Polo Club of Dayton, Ohio; and the Flamingo Polo 
Club of Miami Beach, Florida. 

Mr. Ilassler was married in 1915 to Marie C. Trautwine of Kansas City, 
Missouri. lie has one daughter, Elizabeth Jane. Residence, 3641 Washington 
Boulevard. 


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OF AFFAIRS 



FRANK D. HATFIELD 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRANK D. 

RANK D. HATFIELD, automobile distrib¬ 
utor, president and treasurer of The 
Frank Hatfield Company, 623-27 North Capitol 
Avenue, was born near the town of Magnet, 
Perry County, Indiana, March 24, 1888, son of 
William J. and Emma Sarah (Davis) Hatfield. 
His early education was received from his 
mother, who taught the children of the family 
because the schools of the vicinity, at that time, 
were of short duration each year. 

He attended the Spring school at English, 
Indiana, for ten weeks in preparing to enter 
Shortridge High School, where he actively 
participated upon the track and baseball teams 
and from which institution he graduated in 
1908. Upon his graduation from high school 
he entered Purdue University and for three 
and one-half years pursued a course in elec¬ 
trical engineering. The course was completed 
at the University of Illinois in 1912. 

On June 22, 191.3, at Indianapolis, Mr. Hat¬ 
field married Miss Mary Nash. They have 
three children, William N. Hatfield, Miss 
Mary Frances Hatfield and Jack J. Hatfield. 
The family home is at 336 Harvard Place. 

Upon leaving college Mr. Hatfield entered 
the research department of the Remy Electric 
Company at Anderson, Indiana. While in the 
laboratories of that company he was closely 
associated with research engineers in develop¬ 
ing magneto and battery ignition for motor 
cars. lie personally designed and developed a 
lighting and ignition generator for motorcycles, 
which is extensively used on many motorcycles 
at this time. 

L T pon moving to Indianapolis in 1914, Mr. 
Hatfield entered the Ford Motor Company 
branch as a repairman. In successive steps 
until 1918 he was in the motor department, the 
assembly department, final inspector, retail 


HATFIELD 

sales and the wholesale sales department. In 
this last mentioned department he represented 
the Ford branch in Indiana and parts of 
Illinois. 

On January 1, 1918, Mr. Hatfield became a 
Ford distributor, having purchased the busi¬ 
ness of Harry Stone at 336 North Delaware 
Street. A few months later he purchased the 
Ford business of Holcomb & Siess at 535 North 
Capitol Avenue and then merged the two com¬ 
panies under The Frank Hatfield Company 
name. 

The steady growth of Mr. Hatfield’s auto¬ 
mobile business necessitated new and enlarged 
quarters and so, on January 1, 1921, the com¬ 
pany moved into its present building at 623-27 
North Capitol Avenue. This is a three-story 
brick and terra cotta structure with 58,000 
square feet of floor space exclusively devoted 
to sales and service of Lincoln, Ford and Ford- 
son cars and tractors. In the new building Mr. 
Hatfield has combined every department of 
service to owners of these cars and tractors in 
such manner that they may receive all service 
under one roof. This policy has been an out¬ 
standing factor in the success of Mr. Hatfield’s 
company. When he first became a Ford deal¬ 
er, his contract called for 300 cars a year. In 
1923 his company will surpass tlie 2,000 car 
mark. 

Mr. Hatfield is a member of National Au¬ 
tomobile Trade Association, the Indianapolis 
Auto Trade Association, the Indianapolis 
Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Ath¬ 
letic Club, the Columbia Club, the Iloosier 
Motor Club and of the Purdue chapter of the 
Delta Tau Delta fraternity. His Masonic or¬ 
ganizations are the Murat Temple of the Mys¬ 
tic Shrine, Raper Commandery No. 1, Ancient 
Landmark Lodge and Keystone Chapter No. 6. 



INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



DR. SIDNEY J. HATFIELD 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. SIDNEY J. HATFIELD 

SIDNEY J. HATFIELD, physician and surgeon, was born 

in Perry County, Indiana, July 11, 1880, son of William J. 
and Emma (Davis) Hatfield. His early education was obtained 
in the public schools of the county of his birth, after which he 
attended the high school at Leavenworth, Indiana, from which he 
graduated in June, 1898. He then attended the Hospital College 
of Medicine at Louisville, Kentucky, and from that institution 
graduated, on July 1,1902, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 

For a period of one year following his graduation from medi¬ 
cal college, Dr. Hatfield was interne in the Louisville City Hos¬ 
pital. He then came to Indianapolis and here has since continu¬ 
ously devoted his time to the practice of medicine and surgery, in 
which he has attained to the position of high regard among his 
professional confreres. 

Dr. Hatfield is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Indianapolis Medical Society, Indiana Medical Society and 
American Medical Association, and in the Masonic fraternity is a 
member of Ancient Landmarks Lodge, No. 319, F. & A. M. 

In addition to the general practice of medicine and surgery 
Dr. Hatfield devotes considerable time to educational work, hav¬ 
ing been for a number of years assistant professor of diseases of 
women at the Indiana University Medical School. 

The marriage of Dr. Hatfield to Miss Catherine C. Peckin- 
paugh took place at Alton, Indiana, December 28, 1904. There 
are two children, Nicholas and Wenonali. The Hatfield family 
resides at 2304 Stuart Street. 


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T. BARLOW HATFIELD 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


T. BARLOW HATFIELD 


T BARLOW HATFIELD, son of Charles C. 

. and Caroline F. (Barlow) Hatfield, was 
born January 15, 1874, at Dayton, Ohio. After 
spending his boyhood days in that city, Air. 
Hatfield came with his parents to Indianapolis 
and here completed his high school education, 
being a member of the graduating class of 1891 
of the Indianapolis High School, now Short- 
ridge. 

Air. Hatfield went into his father’s business, 
then the Indianapolis District Telegraph Com¬ 
pany, shortly after his high school graduation, 
and has grown with the organization, now the 
Hatfield Electric Company, of which he is 
president and general manager. It was in the 
year 1907 that the business became officially 
known as a Hatfield concern. At this time the 
telegraph, nightwatch system, and messenger 
departments were sold to the American District 
Telegraph Company. The company had taken 
care of this business in addition to the con¬ 
tracting and supply work. Charles C., the 
father, then took his son, T. Barlow Hatfield, 
as a partner in the business. 

From 1907 to 1912 the Hatfield business 
increased about 50 per cent. The offices dur¬ 
ing these years were located at 36 South Ale- 
ridian Street, having been moved from 15 South 
Meridian Street when the Merchants National 
Bank building was constructed. 

In 1915 Air. Hatfield’s father died, and the 
responsibility of this rapidly increasing busi¬ 
ness was thrust on the junior partner. There 
was an immediate reorganization of the firm 
and at this time Mr. Hatfield became president 
and general manager of the Hatfield Electric 
Company. John C. and Thomas F., brothers 
of Mr. Hatfield, and Mrs. Caroline Hatfield 
were, at the same time, named among the di¬ 
rectors of the company. 

Between the years of 1912 and 1917 the 
business advanced about 85 per cent and it 
became necessary to seek new offices. The 
present site at 102-104 South Meridian Street 
was available at the time and here the firm 


to personally direct. The departmental sys¬ 
tem was inaugurated and there are now eight 
departments, each having its own head and 
each directly responsible to Air. Hatfield. 
During the last five years the company has 
found it necessary to maintain a branch office 
in the city of Chicago, and that office now 
operates quite independently of the local con- 
moved in 1915. 

During the course of its evolution and 
steady growth Mr. Hatfield found that the 
business was becoming too much for one man 
cern. Only in an advisory capacity does Air. 
Hatfield concern himself with the Chicago of¬ 
fice, the management of this office being well 
taken care of by Mr. David Lurvey, vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Hatfield Electric Company. 

The Hatfield Electric Company is, of course, 
a competitive business. The estimating and 
contracting department, over which Air. Hat¬ 
field has personal direction, is greatly respon¬ 
sible for the volume and high class of work 
that comes to the Hatfield companies. The 
business is at least half contracting, the re¬ 
mainder supplies and all kinds of electrical 
work. The Hatfield companies are well and 
favorably known throughout the country, con¬ 
tracts in New York and in Denver representing 
the eastern and western extremities of the 
range of this great volume of business. Since 
Mr. Hatfield has been in charge of the concern 
the business has increased more than 200 per 
cent. 

Mr. Hatfield is held in high regard in 
national electrical circles and is among the 
foremost citizens in Indianapolis. He is presi¬ 
dent of the Building Contractors’ Association 
and secretary of the Highland Golf and Coun¬ 
try Club, lie is a member of the Columbia 
Club, the Highland Golf and Country Club, 
Knights of Columbus, Iviwanis Club, Board of 
Trade, and Chamber of Commerce. 

Mr. Hatfield married Miss Kathryne B. 
Pfau in Indianapolis, June 19, 1901. The resi¬ 
dence is at 3737 North Meridan Street. 


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JOSEPH G. HAYES 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOSEPH G. HAYES 

AMOXG the prominent men of Indianapolis who have attained 

distinction for meritorious work of a public nature is Joseph 
G. Hayes, president of Hayes Brothers, Incorporated. 

Mr. Hayes served as county commissioner from the Second 
District from 1914 to 1920, and it was during his work in this 
office that the subject of this sketch became widely known. He 
is the pioneer of hard surface roads in Marion County, and during 
his six years’ service more than 100 miles of such excellent roads 
were constructed. It was Mr. Hayes’ aim to make the roads in 
Marion County the best in Indiana, a state already favorably 
known for its arrav of fine highways. 

Joseph G. Hayes, son of Otha H. and Lucy E. (McCracken) 
Hayes, was born June 11, 1867, in Hamilton County, Ohio. He 
came to Indianapolis shortly after and received his early educa¬ 
tion in the public schools of this city. Later he went to New York, 
where he took a course of instruction in plumbing and heating at 
the New York Trade School. His journeyman career as a steam 
fitter was spent in Indianapolis, Chicago and New York City. 
This lasted until 1900, at which time Mr. Hayes returned to Indi¬ 
anapolis. Here his two brothers were operating a heating and 
plumbing establishment known as Hayes Brothers. In 1902 the 
firm was incorporated as Hayes Brothers, Incorporated, with 
Joseph G. vice-president and general manager. 

Mr. Hayes became president of the corporation in 1919 upon 
the death of his brother, Frank J. Hayes. The offices of the or¬ 
ganization are at 236 West Vermont Street. 

As a member of the Chamber of Commerce, American Society 
of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, National Association of 
Master Plumbers, president of the Hayes Realty Company, a di¬ 
rector and one of the organizers of the City Trust Company, a 
32nd degree Mason, Knights Templar, Shriner, Columbia Club, 
and Indianapolis Athletic Club, it is readily observed that the man 
has taken an important part in civic affails. 

Mr. Hayes is one of the founders of the Sunnyside Sanator¬ 
ium. He vigorously advocated the Indianapolis Lake and always, 
in fact, has been deeply interested in the development of the city, 
in public improvement, and in every movement that tends toward 
a greater and finer Indianapolis. 

Mr. Hayes is married and lias three children, a daughter and 
two sons. His residence is at 2849 North Capitol Avenue. 


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DR. EDGAR T. HAYNES 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. EDGAR T. HAYNES 

J^R- EDGAR T. HAYNES, son of John Henry and Samanthv 

P. (Gibson) Haynes, was born in Macon County, Tennessee, 
February 28, 1890. His early education was received in the public 
schools of the county of his birth, after which he attended high 
school at Scottsville, Kentucky, from which lie graduated in 1908. 

Upon the completion of this work, Dr. Haynes entered the 

Indiana Dental College at Indianapolis and from that institution 

graduated in 1915, with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, 

immediately following which he began the practice of general 

dentistry in this citv. 

*/ 

Shortly after the outbreak of the European War, Dr. Haynes 
was commissioned a First Lieutenant in the Dental Corps, United 
States Army. He was stationed at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, 
prior to overseas duty at Camp Hospital No. 27, Tours, France. 
In August, 1918, he was commissioned a Captain. 

In September, 1919, Captain Haynes returned to the United 
States and since that time he has exclusively confined his dental 
practice to that of Periodontology. 

Dr. Haynes is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State, 
and American Dental Associations, the American Academy of Ap¬ 
plied Dental Science, the American Academy of Periodontology, 
and the Psi Omega dental fraternity. He is also a member of the 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, Hoosier Athletic Club, Kiwanis Club 
and in the Masonic fraternity is affiliated with Mystic Tie Lodge, 
No. 398, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite, Keystone Chapter and Council 
of the York Rite and the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JOHN OSCAR HENDERSON 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN OSCAR HENDERSON 


J OHN OSCAR HENDERSON, for many years ac¬ 
tively identified with business and political affairs 
of Indianapolis and Indiana, was born in the vil¬ 
lage of New London, Howard County, Indiana, Septem¬ 
ber 1, 1847, a son of Dr. John F. and' Cynthia A. (Whit¬ 
son) Henderson, natives, respectively of Pennsylvania 
and North Carolina. The parents continued to reside in 
Howard County until their death and there held a secure 
place in the esteem of all who knew them. Dr. Hender¬ 
son was one of the able pioneer physicians of Howard 
County, where he was for many years engaged in the 
work of his humane profession. He served as surgeon 
of the Eighty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the 
Civil War, and in the meanwhile had removed with his 
family to the City of Kokomo, the county seat of How¬ 
ard County. After the close of the war he there founded 
the Kokomo Dispatch, and as editor and publisher of 
the same he made the paper a potent force in the local 
political field, as well as effective exponent of the var¬ 
ied interests of the community. He was long known 
as one of the wheel-horses of the Democratic party in 
Indiana and was prominent in its councils. He was a 
man of fine intellectual and professional attainment, 
high-minded, generous and tolerant, and he made his 
life count for good in all its relations. He died in the 
year 1887, and his wife passed away in 1900. They 
became the parents of seven children, of whom three 
sons are now living. 

John Oscar Henderson, the immediate subject of this 
review, is indebted to the common schools of New 
London and Kokomo for his early educational discipline, 
and he supplemented this training by an effective course 
in Asbury University (now DePauw University), at 
G-reencastle, Indiana, from which institution he was 
graduated as a member of the class of 1872 and from 
which he received the degrees of Bachelor of Science 
and Master of Science. 

After his graduation, Mr. Henderson and his broth¬ 
er, Howard E., became identified with the publication 
of the Kokomo Dispatch, of which their father was the 
founder, as already noted. Both attained to success and 
prominence in the local newspaper field of Indiana and 
both gained precedence as loyal and influential advocates 
of the principles and policies of the Democratic party, 
in whose ranks they became active leaders in 1876. 

In connection with Mr. Henderson’s newspaper ex¬ 
periences, it is of interest to here recall the incident 
which, in 1877, led up to the almost literal discovery of 
James Whitcomb Riley and the inactment in that year 
of what has since been termed the “greatest newspaper 
hoax of the century’’—the publication of “Leonainie. ” 
On that occasion the Kokomo Dispatch, of which Mr. 


Henderson was editor-in-chief, published the poem 
“Leonainie”—supposedly a post-humis poem from the 
pen of Edgar Allan Poe, but which, in reality, was the 
work of Janies Whitcomb Riley. Also, too,' Mr. Hen¬ 
derson really had the principal role in the discovery of 
the literary talents of Mary Hartwell Catherwood,'who 
wrote her first work for the Kokomo Dispatch. 

lor many years John Oscar Henderson was chair¬ 
man of the Democratic central committee of Howard 
County, and in 1885 he was appointed United States 
internal revenue collector for the eleventh district of 
Indiana, under the administration of President Grover 
Cleveland. He retained this incumbency two years and 
handled the affairs of the office with unequivocal abil¬ 
ity and success. In 1886, he was a member of the exe¬ 
cutive committee of the Democratic State Central Com¬ 
mittee, and in 1888 he w r as a delegate to the Democratic 
National Convention, in which he had the distinction of 
being chosen assistant secretary. 

In 1889, he was elected president of the Democratic 
Editorial Association of Indiana, and in the following 
year recognition of his eligibility and of his services 
in the party cause was given when, as the candidate on 
the Democratic ticket, he was elected to the responsi¬ 
ble office of auditor of the State of Indiana. He made 
an admirable record in this position and at the expira¬ 
tion of his first term w r as elected as his own successor, 
by a gratifying majority. He was thus incumbent of the 
office of Auditor of State for four consecutive years, 
and his administration has passed on record as one of 
the most effective in the annals of the State government. 

Upon retiring from the office of Auditor of State, 
Mr. Henderson took his family abroad, and resided two 
years in Dresden, Germany, and two years in Paris, 
France, where his sons were prepared for American 
Colleges. During their residence abroad, Mr. and Mrs. 
Henderson traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and 
Africa. Upon their return home in 1901, Mr. Hender¬ 
son became extensively interested in the Kokomo Steel 
and Wire Company, the Lafayette Strawboard Com¬ 
pany, and the Holt Ice and Cold Storage Company, all 
of which he helped to organize and found. 

Since 1891, Mr. Henderson has resided in Indianap¬ 
olis, here engaging in the manufacturing business for a 
number of years until his retirement from participation 
in business matters. He is a member of the Indianap¬ 
olis Athletic Club, Indiana Democratic Club, Scottish 
Rite and the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

The marriage of Mr. Henderson to Miss Mary George 
occurred at Kokomo on May 15, 1879. There are four 
sons, Paul, Ralph, Arthur and Lloyd. Mrs. Henderson 
died May 26, 1921. 


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O. C. HERDRICH 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


0. C. HERDRICH 

Q C. HERDRICH, president of 0. C. Herdrich & Company, 
certified public accountants and consulting industrial en¬ 
gineers, was born in Hendricks County, near Royalton, Indiana, 
July 3, 1888, son of B. F. and Cora E. (Smith) Herdrich. He 
obtained his early education in the common schools of Boone 
County, after which he attended the high school in Lebanon, In¬ 
diana, from which he graduated in 1906. 

Upon the completion of this course, Mr. Herdrich was, until 
1910, deputy auditor of Boone County, after which he served as 
field accountant of the State Board of Accounts until September, 
1913. From that date to May, 1918, he was accountant for the 
Public Service Commission of Indiana, during the last year of 
which he was chief accountant. 

In May, 1918, Mr. Herdrich entered the public accounting 
profession and this he has since continued to the present time. 

He is a member of Boone Lodge, No. 9, F. & A. M., Lebanon 
Chapter, No. 39, Royal Arch Masons, Scottish Rite of Indianap¬ 
olis and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. In addition to these, 
his fraternal organizations include the Modern Woodmen of 
America and B. P. O. E. Lodge, No. 13, Indianapolis. The civic 
and social organizations of which Mr. Herdrich is a member in¬ 
clude the Credit Men’s Association, Indianapolis Chamber of 
Commerce, Advertising Club, Hoosier Motor Club, Kiwanis Club, 
Art Association of Indianapolis and the Old Colony Club. 

Mr. Herdrich married Miss Jessie L. Powell of Lebanon, 
Indiana, in 1917. There are four children, Wilhelmina Margaret, 
Franklin Milroy, Berta Clare and James Robert Herdrich. The 
family residence is at 3161 Kenwood Avenue. 


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EDWARD G. HERETH 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDWARD G. HERETH 

U 1 DM ARD G. HERETH, vice-president and general manager 
1 of the Baldwin Piano Company of Indiana, 18-20 North 
Pennsylvania Street, was born in Indianapolis October 6, 1868, 
son of John C. Hereth and Barbara (Nicldans) Heretli. His edu¬ 
cation was received in the public schools of Indianapolis and upon 
graduation from Shortridge High School was awarded an honor 
scholarship to Wabash College, but of this he did not avail him¬ 
self, as with the termination of these studies he almost immed¬ 
iately became associated with Kingan & Company, as an assistant- 
paymaster. 

In 1888 Mr. Hereth left Kingan & Company to join D. H. 
Baldwin & Company. The D. H. Baldwin Company was estab¬ 
lished in 1862 and continued business under that name for a num¬ 
ber of years. When the Baldwin Company of Indiana was or¬ 
ganized about four years ago the Indiana business of the D. H. 
Baldwin Company was taken over by the new organization. Mr. 
Hereth’s first connection with the I). H. Baldwin & Company was 
as an entry clerk. A few years later he was advanced to the credit 
department and on July 1, 1897, became manager of the company. 
This promotion followed the death of Clarence Wulsin of this 
city who had been manager of and also a partner in the D. H. 
Baldwin & Company. 

L'l Don the organization of the Baldwin Piano Company of 
Indiana, Mr. Hereth was elected vice-president and general man¬ 
ager of the new company. He is also a stockholder in the Baldwin 
Piano Company of Ohio, an $8,000,000 holding company in charge 
of the sales of Baldwin pianos and a director in the Baldwin Piano 
Manufacturing Company of Ohio which is the organization manu¬ 
facturing Baldwin pianos and one of the largest builders of pianos 
in the United States. Plants of the company at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
and Chicago, Illinois, have a capacity of 30,000 pianos yearly. 
During Mr. Hereth’s long connection with the piano business he 
has witnessed the popular growth of the industry coming with the 
advent of the player and reproducing pianos. 

Mr. Hereth is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of 
Commerce, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Columbia Club, the 
Athenaeum, and the Iviwanis Club, and, in 1922, was president of 
the Merchants Association of Indianapolis. His Masonic or¬ 
ganizations are Oriental Lodge, the Scottish Rite, and the Mystic 
Shrine. He is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church and 
as a golf player, an active member of the Woodstock Country Club. 

On April 17, 1901, at Ooslien, Indiana, Mr. Hereth married 
Miss LuLona Wanner. They have two daughters, Miss Gertrude 
Llewellvn Hereth and Miss Elizabeth Marie Hereth. The Indi¬ 
anapolis residence is at 3242 Washington Boulevard and the sum¬ 
mer home at Northport Point, Michigan. 


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WILLIAM HERSCHELL 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


WILLIAM HERSCHELL 


W ILLIAM HERSCHELL, feature writer 
for the Indianapolis News, was born 
November 17, 1873, at Spencer, Indiana, the 
son of John and Martha (Leitcli) Herschell. 
The father was a blacksmith for the Indianap¬ 
olis & Vincennes Railroad and later one of the 
officials at the State House quarry near Spen¬ 
cer, from which the stone Avas taken for the 
present Indiana capitol building. 

It is interesting to note that this same 
quarry is iioav a part of the state park known 
as McCormick’s Creek Canyon. In this park 
is a spring called “Long Boy,” so named by 
Richard Lieber, director of conservation for 
Indiana. Mr. Lieber chose the title name of 
Mr. Herschell’s famous war song because when 
a school boy Mr. Herschell stopped at the 
spring for a drink every day on his AA-av to the 
nearby country school. 

Mr. Herschell lived at Spencer for eight 
years and then removed Avitli the family to 
Rockport, where the father became connected 
AA T ith the Southern system. Various changes 
in the division headquarters of the railroad 
caused the Herschell family to move from 
Rockport to Evansville, then Huntington, and 
later to Princeton. 

Young “Bill,” as he has always been called, 
learned the machinst trade and worked for six 
years in the shops. In 1894 the American Rail- 
Avay Union strike was called, and out Avent 
“Bill” with his felloAV workmen. This was the 
beginnng of the end of his railroad caieei. 
The strike failed, and Mr. Herschell Avent to 
Canada. He came back to Buffalo, hoAve\er, a 
short time after, and there Avorked for a brief 
period in railroad shops of that city. 

James McCormick, aaJio at that time 
edited a small daily newspaper in Princeton, 
Indiana, is responsible for Mr. Herschell’s en¬ 
trance into the neAVspaper Avorld. In 1S96, 
upon the insistence of Mr. McCormick, ill. 


Herschell Avent from a machinist’s bench to a 
newspaper office. He remained with the 
Princeton paper two years and then Avent to 
the EA r ansA'ille Journal. 

In 1899 the opportunity came for employ¬ 
ment on the Indianapolis Press, a new paper 
founded by John H. Holliday and William J. 
Richards. A police reporter’s desk Avas given 
Mr. Herschell, and here he stayed for the dura¬ 
tion of the paper, a period of sixteen months. 
He then Avent to the Terre Haute Tribune for 
nine months. Mr. Herschell’s next position Avas 
with the Indianapolis Journal as police 
reporter. 

In 1902 Mr. Herschell began his career with 
the Indianapolis Noavs. His three years’ Avork 
as a reporter, during which time he was a gen¬ 
eral assignment man, fitted him Avell for the 
position of feature writer, Avhicli he has held 
for the last seventeen years. During this time 
he has become one of the best knoAvn neAVS- 
paper Avriters in the West. 

In 1911 the “Songs of the Streets and By- 
Avays” began, and it has been a favorite bit of 
reading among Indianapolis News subscribers. 
These poems are little stories of every-day life 
in and around Indianapolis. Four books of 
verse have been assembled from these poems 
and those contributed to magazines. The book 
titles are: “Songs of the Streets and ByAvavs,” 
“The Kid Has Gone to the Colors,” “The Smile 
Bringer,” and “IIoAvdv All,” the last named 
being a 1922 offering. 

His song “Long Boy” was introduced to 
the American army at a time when marching 
songs Avere in demand at the various training 
camps, and through the immense popularity of 
this piece Mr. Herschell became even more 
Avidelv known throughout the United States. 

Mr. Herschell married Miss Josephine Pugh, 
June 3, 1908, and resides at 958 Tecumseli 
Place. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



EDWIN R. HISEY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDWIN RAY HISEY 

U 1 DW IN RAY HISEY, partner in the firm of Hisey & Titus, 

funeral directors, is a native Hoosier, having been born in the 
city of Indianapolis, May 1,1876, son of Allen and Ettie (Wright) 
Hisey. His early education was obtained in the public schools of 
the city of liis birth, after which he attended the high school of 
Indianapolis and from this institution graduated in 1881. Im¬ 
mediately upon the completion of his schooling, Mr. Hisey entered 
the employe of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad and with that 
corporation remained until 1900, when he became associated with 
the Badger Furniture Company. 

In 1902 he became interested in the undertaking business and 
in this line of work was engaged individually until 1910, when he 
purchased an interest in the firm of Whitsett & Titus, the firm 
then becoming Whitsett, Titus & Hisey. In 1912 the firm name 
was changed to Hisey & Titus and under that partnership he has 
continued in business to the present time. 

Since Mr. Hisey first entered into the undertaking business 
it lias been his desire to ever maintain the highest possible stand¬ 
ards of business ethics and to render a business service of such 
refinement as to provoke the most favorable comment on the part 
of those served by the firm with which he lias been connected. 
In conformity with this desire Hisey & Titus, in 1916, obtained 
a ninety-nine year lease upon the property at 951 North Dela¬ 
ware Street and in May of that year established “The Funeral 
Home,” one of the first firms of funeral directors in the State to 
establish an undertaking business in a building permitting all of 
the privacy of one’s own home and at the same time meet the 
growing demands for such a place of home privacy created by 
the constantly increasing number of apartment house dwellers. 

Mr. Hisey is a charter member of the Rotary Club of Indi¬ 
anapolis, a charter member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
member of Chamber of Commerce, National Funeral Directors 
Association, and in the Masonic fraternity is a member of Ancient 
Landmarks Lodge, No. 319, F. & A. M., the Scottish Rite, Murat 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine and is a Knight Templar. He is also 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is now on the 
Board of the Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church of this 
city. 

The marriage of Mr. Hisey to Miss Anna Potts occurred at 
Indianapolis in September, 1902. There is one daughter, Eliza¬ 
beth Rae Hisey. The family home is at 215 East Thirty-Third 
Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



WILLIAM J. HOGAN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


WILLIAM JENKINS HOGAN 

TRANSPORTATION and terminal facilities have been a para- 
A mount interest during the business life of William Jenkins 
Hogan, president and general manager of the Indiana Refrigerat¬ 
ing Company at 240 South Pennsylvania Street. 

Mr. Hogan was born in Chillicotlie, Ohio, August 18, 1872. 
His parents were John H. and Mary (Merkle) Hogan. He came 
to Indianapolis in 1892 from Columbus, Ohio, where he had been 
for two years teller of the Fourth National Bank, and, previous to 
that, car accountant for the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus Rail¬ 
road. 

Upon coming to Indianapolis, Mr. Hogan started the Hogan 
Transfer and Storage Company, and for twenty-five years was 
the owner and operator of that concern. In 1902 he became man¬ 
ager of the Indiana Refrigerating Company, the largest cold 
storage and ice-making plant in Indiana, and of which he now 
holds the offices of president and general manager. He is also 
president of the Indiana Terminal Warehouse Company, which 
will construct a large terminal with office rooms, store rooms, and 
general storage, and with railroad and traction facilities. 

In 1918 Mr. Hogan became president and general manager of 
the Ninth Street Terminal Warehouse Company of Cleveland, 
and in 1922 became president and general manager of the Cincin¬ 
nati Terminal Warehouse Company, which is constructing a large 
fire-proof terminal building in that city. 

Mr. Hogan has also, for the past five years, been an expert 
“trouble shooter” for plants experiencing difficulties in produc¬ 
tion or distribution. Warehouses and cold storage terminals, i\s 
well as banks and trust companies, all over the United States, bring 
their technical problems to Mr. Hogan. 

For two years Mr. Hogan served as president of the Indiana 
State Chamber of Commerce. Prior to taking up his connection 
with the Cleveland company, he was for several years a director 
in the National City Bank of Indianapolis. 

He served during the war under Herbert Hoover, food con¬ 
troller, doing committee work that covered the entire cold storage 
industry. 

Mr. Hogan is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, Columbia Club, Woodstock Country Club, Highland Golf 
and Country Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, and the Masonic 
Lodge. He'is also a member of the First Baptist Church. 

On January 1, 1901, Mr. Hogan married Miss Mayme Lingen- 
felter, and they have two daughters, Mrs. Norman Metzger and 
Miss Frances Hogan. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



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JACOB FREDERICK HOKE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JACOB FREDERICK HOKE 

J ACOB FREDERICK HOKE, JR. (Fred) secretary and treasurer of the 
Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Company, was born at Jeffersontown, 
Kentucky, August 9, 1871, son of Andrew Jackson and Mary Frances (Snyder) 
Hoke. At the age of twenty years, after having been engaged in various occu¬ 
pations such as farming, teaming, saw mill labor and clerking, he went to Sulli¬ 
van, Indiana, and there became employed as a clerk in the hardware and im¬ 
plement store of J. F. Hoke, merchant and banker. 

In 1896 Mr. Hoke became associated with J. I. Holcomb under the name of 
the Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Company at Sullivan, remaining there 
until 1905 when the factory was moved to Indianapolis. 

The Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Company, engaged in the manufact¬ 
ure of Butter-Kist pop corn machines is, at this time, the largest manufacturer 
of pop corn machines and peanut roasters in the world and distributes its pro¬ 
ducts to every civilized country of the globe. 

In addition to his business interests, Mr. Hoke has given untiringly of his 
time and energy to many of the most outstanding civic undertakings of Indi¬ 
anapolis. During the World War he was a member of the executive committee 
of the third, fourth and fifth Liberty Loan campaigns and was chairman of the 
committee on personnel for Y. M. C. A. overseas service. He is a trustee of 
DePauw University, a director of the Y. M. C. A., president of the Indianapolis 
Community Chest and a member of the commission to administer the Cornelia 
Cole Fairbanks Memorial Fund to the city of Indianapolis. lie is also a trus¬ 
tee of the Methodist Hospital, a member of the Methodist Church and was Lay 
Delegate to the General Conference of that body in 1916. He has held only 
one political office, that being town clerk and treasurer of Sullivan, Indiana, 
for the year 190-1 at a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars per year under a 
forty thousand dollar bond. 

The Masonic and club affiliations of Mr. Hoke include Mystic Tie Lodge No. 
398 F. & A. M., Scottish Rite, Knights Templar, Mystic Shrine, Rotary Club, 
Highland Golf and Country Club, Woodstock Club, University Club, Indian¬ 
apolis Athletic Club, Indiana Democratic Club, Chamber of Commerce and the 
Board of Trade, being a member of the Board of Governors of the last men¬ 
tioned. 

The marriage of Mr. Hoke to Miss Katharine Cushman, daughter of Dr. 
A. and Mary Cushman, occurred at Graysville, Sullivan County, Indiana. April 
14, 1896. There are three children, Cushman, Frank and Mrs. Perry AY. Lesh, 
nee Mary. Mr. and Airs. Hoke reside at 3445 AYashington Boulevard. 


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J. I. HOLCOMB 


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JAMES I. HOLCOMB 

J AMES IRVING HOLCOMB, founder of the Holcomb & Hoke Manufactur¬ 
ing Company was born May 1, 1876, at La Salle, Illinois, son of William 
Henry and Rebecca (Doubler) Holcomb, descendants of early settlers of Ameri¬ 
ca, his ancestor, Thomas Holcomb coming to Massachusetts with the Pilgrims 
in 1636. Mr. Holcomb's parents moved to Warren, Illinois, when he was but a 
child and in that typical American town he was reared. He graduated from the 
high school at Warren and then attended the University of Michigan. 

In 1896, Mr. Holcomb formed a business partnership with a resident of 
Lafayette, Indiana, and at that city became engaged in the brush business. In 
the fall of that same year, however, Mr. Fred Hoke, then a resident of Sullivan, 
Indiana, succeeded the earlier partner, whereupon the Holcomb & Hoke Manu¬ 
facturing Company was organized and the plant moved to Sullivan. In 1897 
Mr. Holcomb went to New York for the purpose of building an Eastern sales 
organization for the company and there remained until 1901 when he returned 
to Sullivan. In the fall of that year he purchased the interests of Mr. Hoke and 
organized the J. I. Holcomb Manufacturing Company, which in 1905 was moved 
to Indianapolis and which has since developed into one of the country’s largest 
manufacturers and distributors of brushes and cleaning supplies. 

In 1903 Mr. Holcomb and Mr. Hoke again joined forces, buying the Ameri¬ 
can Box Ball Company, producers of the box ball bowling alleys, located in In¬ 
dianapolis. Eleven years later, in 1911, the Butter-Kist pop corn machine was 
developed and added to the line and the name of the company changed to the 
Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Company. Today that company ranks as the 
largest manufacturer of pop corn machines and peanut roasters and distributes 
its products to all parts of the world. During the World War Mr. Holcomb 
was actively identified with various war-time activities, while the Holcomb & 
Hoke Manufacturing Company made an enviable record in the execution of its 
various contracts. 

Mr. Holcomb is an active member of the Meridian Street Methodist Church 
and, as one keenly interested in art, contributes each year an award to be com¬ 
peted for by the artists of Indiana. He is a member of and also upon several 
boards of various civic clubs, associations and charities, as well as a member of 
the Columbia Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, Indiana Society of Chicago and the Elks. In the Masonic fraternity he 
is a member of Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398 F. & A. M., Scottish Rite and Murat 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

The marriage of Mr. Holcomb to Miss Musetta Black occurred at New 
York City. There is one daughter, Mrs. Dr. C. R. Strickland, nee Jessie. The 
Holcomb family residence is situated at 44th & Cold Springs Road. 


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STERLING R. HOLT 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


STERLING R. HOLT 


S TERLING 1\. IIOLT, capitalist, treasurer of the Ilolt Ice & Cold Storage 
Company, nas born in the village of Graham, Alamance County, North 
Carolina, March 26, 1850, son of Seymour P. and Nancy A. Holt. Ilis parents 
were both natives of North Carolina where they spent their lives. Like other 
Southern families, they suffered the ravages of the Civil war and as Sterling 
R. Ilolt, of this sketch, was at that time of school age, he was deprived of many 
of the advantages which might have been secured in a peaceful condition of 
the country. 


In the county of his birth, however, Air. Holt secured a limited education, 
after which he worked upon a farm in that locality until he came to Indianap¬ 
olis in 1869, when only nineteen years of age. Here he worked at whatever 
employment was available and at the same time prepared for a business career 
by completing a course in the Bryant & Stratton Business College. 

In 1872 Mr. Holt obtained a clerical position with the retail dry goods con¬ 
cern of Muir & Foley with whom he remained for three years. During this 
time, by the practice of the strictest economy, he was enabled to acquire a lim¬ 
ited capital and with this established, in 1875, a drug store at 164 West Wash¬ 
ington Street which, under his direction, grew and prospered for a period of 
seven years, when he sold his interests. 


In the meantime, for four years, Mr. Holt had also been in the ice business 
and in 1880 together with other parties, organized the Indianapolis Ice Com¬ 
pany. In 1888 a division of the ice business was made in which Mr. Ilolt re¬ 
tained the wholesale department. Ilis ice business has since acquired interests 
in other ice companies and firms in various cities and towns of Indiana and is 
now known as the Holt Ice & Cold Storage Company. 

Mr. Holt has been active in Democratic politics and during the adminis¬ 
tration of former Mayor Thomas L. Sullivan, was president of the Board of 
Public Safety. In 1890 he was elected chairman of the Marion County Demo¬ 
cratic Central Committee and in 1892 was elected County Treasurer. That of¬ 
fice he filled for one term from 1893 to 1895, not being a candidate for re- 
election. In 1895 Air. Holt was elected chairman of the Democratic State 
Central Committee of Indiana but resigned this position because of his inability 
to support the free silver candidacy of William Jennings Bryan. 

Mr. Holt is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indi¬ 
anapolis Board of Trade, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Art Association of In¬ 
dianapolis and the Indiana Democratic Club and is prominently identified with 
both the York and Scottish Rites of Masonry. lie is affiliated with Ancient 
]landmarks Lodge No. 319 F. & A. M., Keystone Chapter Royal Arch 
Masons, Knights Templar Commandery, Indiana Consistory of Scottish Rite 
and the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. lie has also for the past forty 
years been a member of Lodge No. 56 Knights of Pythias and for the last 
twenty years a member of Lodge No. 13 B. P. 0. E. 

Mr. Holt married Miss Mary Gregg of Danville, Indiana, November 18, 
1874. Mrs. Ilolt died August 24, 1920. Mr. Holt resides at the St. James 
Court Apartments. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



DR. THOMAS C. HOOD 


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DR. THOMAS C. HOOD 



R. THOMAS 0. HOOD, oculist, was born in Vermillion 


County, Indiana, October 28, 1860, son of Thomas and Re¬ 
becca (Aye) Hood. His parents were early pioneers of the State 
of Indiana, clearing away the forest in order to build a home. The 
elementary education of Dr. Hood was received in the public and 
high schools in the county of his birth, after which he attended 
Wabash College, from which he graduated in 1881. In the fall of 
that same year Dr. Hood entered the Jefferson School of Medicine 
at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and from that institution grad¬ 
uated in 1884. Upon the completion of this preparation he entered 
upon the general practice of medicine, but thirteen years later 
decided to specialize upon the treatment of the diseases of the eye, 
so pursued post-graduate work in New York, Berlin and Vienna. 

Since coming to Indianapolis, in 1899, Dr. Hood has continu¬ 
ously devoted his practice exclusively to diseases of the eye in 
which work he has gained an honored place among those in his 
profession as an oculist of more than usual ability and talent. 
He has been a member of the faculty of the Indiana University 
School of Medicine since 1906, teaching Ophthalmology, and for a 
number of years a member of the staff of the City Hospital and a 
member of the various State and National American Medical So¬ 
cieties. He is also a member of the American Academy of Optha- 
mology and Oto-laryngologv and for a number of years was oculist 
for the Big Four Railroad. 

In addition to these professional affiliations Dr. Hood is a 
member of the Columbia Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Indi¬ 
anapolis Country Club, and in the Masonic fraternity is a member 
of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. M. and of the Scottish Rite. 

The marriage of Dr. Hood to Miss Susie Stanley occurred 
June 5, 1892. There is one son, Thomas S., who is now a student 
at Harvard University. The family home is at 124 E. 32nd 

Street. 


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JOHN A. HOOK 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN A. HOOK 

J OHN AUGLST IIOOK, president of the Hook Drug Company, was born at 
Cincinnati, Ohio, December 17, 1880, son of August and Margaret (Ruppert) 
Hook. Having been brought to Indianapolis by bis parents when an infant, be 
attended the public schools of this city, after which he entered the Indianapolis 
Catholic Schools and later followed a course at the Indianapolis Business Col¬ 
lege. When sixteen years of age he entered a drug store operated by F. J. 
Frye, as an apprentice and in this capacity served for a period of two years. 

During his drug store apprenticeship, Mr. Hook determined to go into the 
drug store business and in 1898 entered the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy 
from which he graduated in 1899 with the degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy 
and in 1900 with the degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist. He then returned to 
Indianapolis as manager of one of the Frye stores but in this capacity remained 
for a period of but six months when he entered the drug business for himself in 
a small store located on Southeast Street. During the operation of this store he 
conceived the idea of creating a chain of downtown drug stores, rather than to 
continue the comparatively limited business possessed by so-called neighborhood 
stores. Thus it was that the first downtown store conducted by the Hook Drug 
Company was opened on East Washington Street between Alabama and New 
Jersey streets. 

This was followed in 1912, however, by the creation of a group of neighbor¬ 
hood stores which, confirming Mr. Hook’s view of the limited business possi¬ 
bilities, were eventually sold to individual buyers. 

In 1914 the store at Illinois and Washington Streets was opened and imme¬ 
diately produced a surprisingly large volume of business. Since the opening 
of that store, the Hook Drug Company has continuously added downtown stores 
to the chain and now operates a total of nine stores in Indianapolis and stores 
in Kokomo, Anderson, Marion, Lafayette and Muncie, Indiana. 

In addition to his business, Mr. Hook has given untiringly of his time and 
energy to civic activities of Indianapolis. He is particularly interested in the 
Boy Scout movement, being a member of the Indianapolis Council of the Boy 
Scouts of America and a member of the extension committee of that organiza¬ 
tion. Mr. Hook believes the boy scout movement to he of tremendous influence 
in the building of good citizenship and a good investment towards the develop¬ 
ment of character of boys who are destined to become leaders of the commun¬ 
ity. It is of interest to note that Mr. Hook was largely responsible for the rais¬ 
ing of funds to build what has become known as the Kiwanis Boy Scouts Hut 
now located on the Boy Scouts Reserve, north of Indianapolis and for the erec¬ 
tion of the new building to contain shower baths and other sanitary equipment 
for use when the outdoor advantages are curtailed by inclement weather con¬ 
ditions. 

Mr. Hook is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Better Business Bu¬ 
reau, Iloosier Athletic Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Highland Golf and 
Country Club, Indianapolis Gun Club, Marion County Fish and Game Associa¬ 
tion and the Isaac Walton League. 

The marriage of Mr. Hook to Miss Florence Weiss took place in Indian¬ 
apolis, July 6, 1905. There are three children, Dorothy Margaret, August Fer¬ 
dinand, a member of Troop No. 46 Boy Scouts of America, and Ralph William. 
The Hook family home is upon White River at Crows Nest Hill. 


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JAMES B. HOWARD 


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JAMES BARZILLAI HOWARD 

TAMES BARZILLAI HOWARD, manufacturer aud inventor, 
J was born August 38, 1867, at Detroit, Michigan, son of William 
and Catherine (Hudson) Howard. He was educated in the public 
schools of Detroit. Entered Mel choir’s Art School and studied 
free-hand drawing with the intention of following the occupation 
of carving and designing. Shortly afterwards he took up me¬ 
chanical drawing and followed the business of wood pattern mak¬ 
ing, especially for stoves and furnaces, which led up to the prob¬ 
lems of combustion in such devices. 

In 1893 he entered the commercial branch of the stove busi¬ 
ness. In 1899 he invented and obtained numerous patents on 
smoke consuming devices to be used in stoves and furnaces where¬ 
by all the ingredients of the fuel, and particularly those of bitu¬ 
minous coal, are utilized. 

Immediately upon the appearance of the patented device, 
other stove manufacturers copied the invention, whereupon suits 
for infringement were instituted, such suits being defended by an 
organization formed for the purpose and composed of all the lead¬ 
ing stove manufacturers of this country. The litigation lasted 
over seven years. Mr. Howard’s patent was fully sustained in the 
United States Circuit Courts and the United States Circuit Court 
of Appeals three different times. These decisions in Mr. How¬ 
ard’s favor put an end to infringements and caused the abandon¬ 
ment of the organization with a realignment of the stove industry. 

The invention has never been improved upon or superseded 
by other devices. 

Mr. Howard is president of the Utility Stove & Range Com¬ 
pany, president of the Utility Realty Company, president of the 
Library Realty Company, treasurer of the University Realty 
Company, and vice-president of the Progress Realty Company. 

He married Miss Frances Grace Hanchett of St. Louis at 
Chicago on January 25, 1900. They reside at the Claypool Hotel. 

He is a member of the Indianapolis Board of Trade and the 
Indianapolis Athletic Club and a stockholder in the Columbia 

Club. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



THOMAS CARR HOWE 


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THOMAS CARR HOWE 


THOMAS CARR HOWE, A. M., Pli. D., for many 
years prominently identified with higher educa¬ 
tional work in the State of Indiana, as president 
of Butler College from 1907 to 1920, and as a close 
student of all that is best in literature, was born on a 
farm in Charlestown Township, Clark County, Indiana, 
August 5, 1867, son of Bev. Robert Long and Elizabeth 
(Carr) Howe. His father, son of a pioneer and in¬ 
fluential citizen of Clinton County, Ohio, and a stanch 
Abolitionist in the period leading up to the Civil War, 
was born near Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, in 
3832, and his mother near Charlestown, in Clark County, 
Indiana, in 1844. His great grandfather, Thomas Carr, 
settled near Charlestown in 1808 and, in 1816, was a 
member of the Corydon Constitutional Convention. 

In 1884 Thomas Carr Howe, of this sketch, entered 
Butler College as a senior preparatory student, having- 
obtained his preliminary education in the public schools 
of Charlestown, Indiana, and from Butler College he 
graduated in 1889 with the degree of Bachelor of Phil¬ 
osophy. In the following autumn he became instructor 
of Latin and German at Butler College and in this 
work continued for the full school term, or until June, 
1890, when immediately following his marriage on June 
5, of that year, to Miss Jennie Etta Armstrong, of Ko¬ 
komo, Indiana, he went in company with his bride, to 
Europe where he passed the summer in travel and after 
which he entered Berlin University as a student of 
Germanic languages and literatures. 

Following a period of two years in Berlin, Mr. and 
Mrs. Howe returned to Indianapolis to assume the duties 
of the Armstrong Professor of Germanic languages in 
Butler College, a position to which lie had been ap¬ 
pointed before his departure for Berlin. In 1896 he 

entered Harvard University, from which in 1897 he 

received the degree of Master of Arts and in 1899 the 
degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In the year last men¬ 
tioned, he again went to Europe for a period of a few 
months prior to the resumption of his duties as a mem¬ 
ber of the faculty of Butler College. In the spring of 
1906, Dr. Howe was made chairman of the Endowment 
Committee of the college, to which committee was as¬ 
signed the completion of the raising of the Butler Col¬ 
lege endowment of $250,000. This work was success¬ 
fully completed in 1907 and in the fall of that year 

Dr. Howe became Dean of Butler College, Dr. Scot 

Butler, its president, having retired on a Carnegie pen¬ 
sion. Early in 1908, Dr. Howe was formally elected 


president of the institution and in that capacity served 
until 1920 when he resigned to devote all of his time 
to private business matters. Of Dr. Howe it has many 
times been stated that, as president of Butler College, 
he served with such administrative ability as decidedly 
to advance the prestige long enjoyed by this worthy 
institution to a place of still higher standing among 
colleges and universities of the United States. 

In addition to the time devoted by Dr. Howe to edu¬ 
cational work he has also been actively identified with 
many undertakings relating to the growth and develop¬ 
ment of Indianapolis and Indiana. For a number of 
years prior to the purchase of the Indianapolis Water 
Company property by the present owners, Dr. Howe 
was a member of the Board of Directors of that corpora¬ 
tion; for several years he was president of the Indianap¬ 
olis Council of Boy Scouts of America, during which 
time the present Boy Scout Reservation near Fort Ben¬ 
jamin Harrison was acquired; he is one of the Corpora¬ 
tors of Crown Hill Cemetery and one of the members of 
the Board of Managers of that association, while for one 
term, that of 1905, he was a representative from Marion 
County in the Lower House of the General Assembly of 
Indiana. He is also at this time a vice-president of the 
Indianapolis Council of Boy Scouts of America, a mem¬ 
ber of the Community Chest Board, a member of the 
Indiana Public Library Commission, vice-chairman of 
the Indianapolis City Plan Commission and Board of 
Zoning Appeals, president of the Indiana State Teach¬ 
ers ’ Retirement Fund Board and in general national 
church matters is a member of the executive committee 
of the Board of Education of the Disciples of Christ 
Church and a member of the Board of Ministerial Re¬ 
lief of that body. He has been actively identified with 
the Modern Languages Association of America and is 
now a member of the Indianapolis Literary Club, Uni¬ 
versity Club, Columbia Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Art Association of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Chamber 
of Commerce and the Indianapolis and Irvington Atlien- 
anims. In the Masonic fraternity he is a member of 
Irvington Lodge, No. 666 and Raper Commandery. 

For a number of years Dr. Howe has been one of 
the interested principals of the Annstrong-Landon Hard¬ 
ware Company of Kokomo, of which he is now a vice- 
president, and has other Kokomo business interests. 

To Dr. and Mrs. Howe have been born four children, 
Mary Elizabeth, Charlotte Brandon, Thomas Carr, Jr., 
and Addition Armstrong. 



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Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 

H. C. HUFFSTETTER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


H. C. HUFFSTETTER 

LI C. HUFFSTETTER is of Hoosier stock, having been born 
• in Orleans, Indiana, on April 10, 1860, son of David Jeffer¬ 
son and Mary (Campbell) Hnffstetter. Two of his grandparents 
were born in Indiana in 1811 while this state was still a territory. 

After completing a course of the country school near Orleans, 
he went to the Orleans High School and later to Purdue Univer¬ 
sity. While living in Orleans, Mr. Hnffstetter was engaged in 
several different industries. For a time he was a farmer, later a 
miller, and for several years was connected witty a contracting firm 
which did general contract work. 

He came to Indianapolis in 1901 and entered the sand and 
gravel industry. He assisted in organizing the Indiana Sand and 
Gravel Producers’ Association and was elected its first president. 
This organization, of which he has served intermittently as the 
head for five years, has been an important factor in building up 
and solidifying the industry in this city and throughout the state. 
Mr. Hnffstetter is president of the Brown-Huffstetter Sand Com¬ 
pany and the Brown-Huffstetter Material Company, with plants 
at Kentucky Avenue and Reisner Street and South Harding 
Street and White River. 

He is a member of all of the York Rite Masonic bodies, the 
Mystic Shrine, the Sons of the Revolution, Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, the Rotary Club, the Indiana Historical Society, and the 
Indiana Democratic Club. He is a Unitarian. 

On March 9, 1893, Mr. Hnffstetter married Miss Fancy J. 
Riley of Bedford, Indiana. His home is at 2350 North New Jer¬ 
sey Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



DR. CHARLES D. HUMES 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. CHARLES D. HUMES 


R. CHARLES D. HUMES, neurologist and neurological surgeon, was born 



in Rush County, Indiana, June 24, 1882, son of John C. and Mary Eliza¬ 
beth (Perkins) Humes. His early education was obtained in the public schools 
and high school of Rush County, after which be attended Moores Hill College, 
from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1903. Fol¬ 
lowing this preliminary education he attended Indiana University School of 
Medicine where lie obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1906. 

Since his graduation from medical college, Dr. Humes has confined his 
practice to diseases of the nervous system, although in this connection it is of 
interest to here note that he has since that time been continuously connected 
with the teaching staff of the University of Indiana and for several years upon 
the staff at the Robert Long, City and Methodist Hospitals. 

In July 1917 Dr. Humes, with the rank of Captain, enlisted with Lilly 
Base Hospital, which later became officially known as United States Army Base 
Hospital No. 32. On December 2, 1917 he sailed for France and for one month 
after his arrival was located with United States Army Base Hospital No. 32 at 
its base—Contrexeville, Vosges, France. At the end of one month he was trans¬ 
ferred to Savenay, France, where he assumed charge of the Neuro-Phychipatic 
Hospital, which was during the early period of the war regarded as a general 
“clearing house” for nervously affected soldiers of the American Expedition¬ 
ary Forces. In this work Dr. Humes continued until the latter part of June 
1918 when he was relieved from duty and sent back to the Vosges district as 
consultant in neurology and Psychiatry at the Vittrell, Contrexeville center 
comprising 10,000 beds of which Base Hospital No. 32 was one of four units. 
There he remained until the latter part of January 1919 when he was ordered 
returned to the United States. While in the Vittrell, Contrexeville center he 
was promoted to the rank of Major. 

Upon his return to the United States in February 1919, Dr. Humes was 
stationed at Camp Dix, New Jersey, in the capacity of consultant neuropsy¬ 
chiatrist until his honorable discharge, February 28, 1919. 

Dr. Humes is a member of the Indianapolis Medical Association, the Indi¬ 
ana State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the Missis¬ 
sippi Valley Medical Association and of the American Neurological Association 
and of the Phi Chi Medical Fraternity, of which he was a trustee for a number 
of years. He is also a member of the University Club, Indianapolis Country 
Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Woodstock Club, the Indianapolis Rotary 
Club, Indianapolis Tennis Club, the American Legion and of Rushville Lodge 
No. 64, F. & A. M. 

The marriage of Dr. Humes to Miss Lila Evelyan Allison occurred at 
Indianapolis October 27, 1908. There is one daughter, Mary Elizabeth. The 
family residence is at 4048 North Pennsylvania Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 



FRANK B. HUNTER 


Photograph by Ellis 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRANK B. HUNTER 


FRA K B. HUNTER, architect and engineer, Avas born at Coa 7 - 
ington, Kentucky, June 17, 1883, son of John H. and Carrie 
F. (Smith) Hunter. V hen but six years of age he AA T as brought 
to Indianapolis and in this city received his education. He first 
attended the public grade schools and at the same time the old 
Classical Art School, then located in Circle Hall, after which lie 
attended Manual Training High School. 


In connection \A 7 ith Mr. Hunter’s early actFities in Indian¬ 
apolis, it is of interest to here recall that to him, when but sixteen 
years of age, AA T as awarded the first prize, in an open competition, 
conducted to create and design an official seal for the City of 
Indianapolis. In fact, the seal now in general use by the City of 
Indianapolis is that originally drawn and executed by the subject 
of this sketch. 


Upon the conclusion of his high school education, Mr. Hunter 
entered the employe of P. C. Rubush & Company, with which firm 
he remained for a period of approximately tA\ T o years Avhen he 
went to Vincennes, Indiana, there to become associated AA T ith an¬ 
other architectural firm. In the city just mentioned, he remained 
for tA\ 7 o years aaIicii he returned to Indianapolis to become asso¬ 
ciated AA T ith the architectural firm of R. P. Daggett & Company. 
In this connection he remained until 1907, when he determined to 
enter upon an indmdual career as an architect, specializing par¬ 
ticularly in the creation of fine homes. To this work Mr. Hunter 
has since been continuously de\ T oted, building up an individual 
type of building and construction service designed to create the 
original and attractive in unison with the practical. 

Not only does Mr. Hunter specialize upon the creation of fine 
homes from the architectural standpoint, but in the general fur¬ 
nishing and ornamentation of homes, he takes personal interest in 
the infusion of especially designed equipment and methods of 
construction. 

Mr. Hunter, who since April 12, 1922, has been official archi¬ 
tect, for the City of Indianapolis, is a member of the Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, Monument Lodge No. 657 F. & A. M., Indianapolis 
Chapter, Knights Templar, and the Murat Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine. 

On December 20,1912 Mr. Hunter married Miss Anna ToavIcs 
at Iiwington. There is one child, John Alfred. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hunter reside at 4834 North Illinois Street. 


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OF AFFAIRS 



0. B. ILES 


Photograph hy Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ORLANDO B. ILES 

/ARLANDO B. ILES, general manager and treasurer of tlie 
y' I n l erna tional Machine Tool Company, is not a native of In¬ 
diana, but was born May 31, 1869, in Brown County, Ohio, son of 
Thomas and Elizabeth (Ewing) lies. 

Mr. lies has had a varied and interesting career. In his early 
boyhood lie spent two years in Florida with his mother, who was 
ill, and then from 1882 to 1889 was in four different schools, at 
Maysville, Kentucky; Springfield, Illinois; Nashville, Tennessee; 
and Tuscola, Illinois. For a year after leaving the latter institu¬ 
tion he was a school teacher, having a country school in Douglass 
County, Illinois. He then spent four years at DePauw Univer¬ 
sity, Greencastle, Indiana, and during the year 1893 to 1894 
studied law with Judge H. C. Allen and, at the same time, attended 
to his varied duties as claim agent for the Street Car Company of 
Indianapolis. 

In 1895 Mr. lies was admitted to the Indiana Bar. Two years 
after his admission he was appointed reading clerk of the Indiana 
House of Representatives, and from 1897 to 1898 was prosecutor 
in the city court. Beyond these, he has never sought public office. 

The manufacturing business came to attract him more than 
the steady practice of the law, and in 1899 he became associated 
with the Arthur Jordan Company. In 1903 he was made manager 
of the Capital City Gas Engine Company, and in 1906 he or¬ 
ganized the International Machine Tool Company with Arthur 
Jordan and Charles L. Libby as partners. 

Mr. lies has been president of many organizations, including 
the Indianapolis Branch of the National Metal Trades, the Asso¬ 
ciated Employers of Indianapolis, the Marion Club in 1918, the 
Iviwanis Club in 1920, and the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce 
in 1922. 

He is Past Commander of the Indianapolis Lodge, No. 56, 
Knights of Pythias, a member of the Mystic Tie Lodge, F. & A. M., 
the Scottish Rite, and the Shrine. He is also a member of the 
Hoosier Motor Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, Kiwanis 
Club, Columbia Club, Machinery Club of Chicago, and the Indi¬ 
anapolis Athletic Club. 

On October 25, 1899, Mr. lies married Miss Esther Day Jor¬ 
dan. They have two children, Mrs. Edward A. Ogle, nee Eliza¬ 
beth Ewing, and Arthur Jordan lies. The family resides at 4400 
North Meridian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



WILLIAM H. INSLEY 


Photograph by Dexlieimer 







INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


WILLIAM H. INSLEY 

W ILLIAM II. INSLEY, son of William Quinn and Celia (Whitmore) Ins- 
ley, was born January 1C, 1870, at Terre Haute, Indiana. The Inslev 
family is numbered among the pioneers of the Hoosier state. Job Inslev, great¬ 
grandfather of William H., lived in Newtown, Fountain County, where he is 
buried. Ellis Inslev, his son, removed from Fountain County in the early 
sixties to a farm located north of Indianapolis, now within the city limits on 
what is now North Illinois Street. lie is buried in Crown Hill cemetery, which 
as a commissioner he helped to lay out. William Q. Insley, father of William 
II., was born in Fountain County and later lived in Terre Haute, where he 
practiced medicine for a number of years. 

William II. Insley received his common school education in Fountain 
County and then taught school for two years before entering DePauw Univer¬ 
sity. He later matriculated at Hose Polytechnic Institute, through which 
institution he worked his way. 

After completing his technical training he came to Indianapolis as a drafts¬ 
man for the Brown-Ketcham Iron Works and later was in charge of the engi¬ 
neering department of the Noelke-Richards Iron Works. 

In 1905, with very limited means, he succeeded in organizing the Insley 
Iron Works, engineers and fabricators of structural iron works. Four years 
later the company was reorganized as the Insley Manufacturing Company. It 
was at this time that the business began to specialize in concrete-handling equip¬ 
ment. In the early days of the concern Mr. Insley took care of practically all 
the office work and supervised the factory and field work outside. The com¬ 
pany now employs fifty engineers and office assistants and has a considerable 
force of workmen. 

The Insley products are used by the United States Government, large steel 
corporations, and many other industries, and by general building contractors 
identified with the construction of dry docks, dams, breakwaters, retaining walls, 
reinforced concrete buildings and the like. One of the most important devel¬ 
opments of the company is the gravity tower employed for the conveyance 
and distribution of concrete, in connection with which the company holds sev¬ 
eral valuable patents. The market for this equipment is world-wide. 

Mr. Insley is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Ameri¬ 
can Society of Mechanical Engineers, Board of Managers of Rose Polytechnic 
Institute, Irvington Masonic Lodge, Rotary Club, University Club, and Indian¬ 
apolis Literary Club. Air. Insley is president of the Family Welfare Society 
of Indianapolis; a member of the board of directors of the Community Chest; 
vice-president of the state Y. M. C. A.; treasurer of the Society of Indiana Pio¬ 
neers; a member of the board of directors of the Art Association, and a trustee 
of the Irvington Methodist Church. 

On January 1, 1903, he married Miss Jane Williams in Corning, New 
York. There is one son, Francis II. The Insley home is at 445 North Audubon 
Road. The offices and plant of the Insley Manufacturing Company, of which 
Mr. Insley is president and general manager, are located at Olney and East 
St. Clair Streets. 


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OF AFFAIR. 5 



CLARENCE R. IRISH 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CLARENCE R. IRISH 


LARENCE R. IRISH, of Millspaugh & Irish, motor coach 



builders, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, January 25, 1890, 
son of John R. and Mary E. Irish. Early education was secured 
in Indianapolis, Indiana, followed by a course in mechanical en¬ 
gineering and automobile body designing. His practical expe¬ 
rience was received in the Engineering Department of Nordvke 
& Marmon, American Motor Car Company, Diamond Chain and 
and Manufacturing Company, and McMeans & Tripp, all of Indi¬ 
anapolis. 

In 1911 he formed a partnership with Harry B. Millspaugh, 
as designing and consulting engineers on automobile bodies, which 

soon developed into a manufacturing concern. The firm has since 

prospered and grown until today it is nationally known by 

the automobile trade as producers of highgrade coach bodies. 

Early in 1923 the firm of Millspaugh & Irish was incorpor¬ 
ated under the same name at $1,500,000, with Mr. Irish as vice- 
president and general manager. The new corporation will con¬ 
tinue operations in the manufacture of automobile bodies as hi the 
past, the incorporation having been brought about merely for 
business expansion. 

Mr. Irish is married and resides at 22 South Colorado Ave¬ 
nue. He is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Chamber 
of Commerce, Optimist Club, Elks Lodge, No. 13, Center Lodge 
No. 23, E, & A. M., the Scottish Rite, and Murat Temple. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



DR. HENRY JAMESON 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. HENRY JAMESON 

FAR. HE XRY JAMESON, physician by profession, but of recent 
' years more prominently identified with the business interests 
of Indianapolis, as chairman of the Board of Directors of the In¬ 
dianapolis Street Railway Company, was born at Indianapolis, 
September 9, 1848, the son of Alexander and Lydia C. (Thomp¬ 
son) Jameson. 

His early education was obtained in the public schools of 
Wa yne township, after which he attended Northwestern Christian 
University, now Butler College, from which he graduated in 1869, 
with the degree of Bachelor of Science. This was followed by a 
course at the Bellview Hospital Medical College, from which he 
graduated in 1871 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 

Upon the completion of his professional education, Dr. 
Jameson returned to Indianapolis and here engaged in the general 
practice of medicine from 1872 until 1906, during which time he 
gained a position of high esteem as a citizen of the Commonwealth 
and an enviable reputation among those affiliated with the medical 
profession. From 1901-5 he was Surgeon General of the Indi¬ 
ana National Guard, under the late Governor IV. T. Durbin and 
from 1906 to 1915 was chairman of the board of Park Commis¬ 
sioners of Indianapolis. In 1914 he became president of the In¬ 
dianapolis Street Railway Company, which position he continu¬ 
ously held until 1919, when, upon the reorganization of the com¬ 
pany, he became chairman of the Board of Directors. 

While, as noted, Dr. Jameson is not now active in the prac¬ 
tice of medicine, he is upon the staffs of all the hospitals of In¬ 
dianapolis, a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State and 
American Medical Associations and retains a position of close con¬ 
tact with those now more actively engaged in medical work. 

Dr. Jameson is a charter member of the Columbia Club, a 
member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Christian 
Church and in the Masonic fraternity is a member of Mystic Tie 
Lodge, No. 398, E. & A. M., Scottish Rite and Murat Temple of 
the Mystic Shrine. In addition to these associations he has come, 
of late, to be vitally interested in the new life of Butler College, 
having been largely responsible for securing the noble site of Fair- 
field Park as seat for the college buildings. He is a member of 
the board of directors of Butler College, as well as the Butler 
Foundation, and is chairman of the General Plan Committee and 
vice-chairman of the Buildings-and Grounds Committee of that 
organization. 

The marriage of Dr. Jameson to Miss Gertrude Carey took 
place in Indianapolis, November 25, 1875. Mrs. Jameson died 
December 15,1915. There are two daughters, Mrs. Donald Pierce, 
nee Eunice, and Mrs. B. B. Greer, nee Augusta. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



GUY K. JEFFRIES 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GUY K. JEFFRIES 



UY Iv. JEFFRIES, general superintendent of the Terre 


Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company, was born 
on July 9, 1866, in Ripley County, Indiana, son of Dr. William E. 
and Olive (Knowlton) Jeffries. When he was a boy his parents 
moved to Indianapolis and he was educated in the public and 
high schools of this city. 

He became interested in telegraphy, and after completing his 
high school education became an operator on the Big Four Rail¬ 
road assigned to the Indianapolis office. He was telegraph opera¬ 
tor for three years and then was promoted to train dispatcher 
and occupied that post for another three years. He then went to 
Huntington, Indiana, to become a train dispatcher for the Erie 
Railroad with headquarters in that city. From Huntington, Mr. 
Jeffries was transferred to Chicago, where for nine years he 
was chief dispatcher and trainmaster. 

In 1903, Mr. Jeffries became connected with the Terre Haute, 
Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company as trainmaster with 
headquarters at Lebanon. A year later he was advanced to division 
superintendent, and since 1909 has been general superintendent of 
the company, which operates several traction lines radiating from 
Indianapolis and which is one of the important traction companies 
in the United States. 

Mr. Jeffries was the founder of the Exchange Club of Indi¬ 
anapolis and its first president. His activity in the club led to his 
selection as a member of the Board of Control of the National Ex¬ 
change Clubs and, in 1923, to his election to the presidency of the 
national organization. He Avas president of the Hoosier Motor 
Club in 1921-22 and actively identified with the Indianapolis 
Traffic Club. In 1916-17 he Avas a member of the Board of Con¬ 
trol of the Indiana Boys’ School. 

He is a member of both the American Electric Railway Asso¬ 
ciation and the Central Electric Railway Association. He is also 
a member of the Columbia Club, a 32nd degree Mason and a mem¬ 
ber of the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

Mr. Jeffries married Miss Augustine M. Rentier at Indianap¬ 
olis on June 15, 1892. They have one daughter, Miss Lorene M. 
Jeffries. The family home is at 19 North Audubon Road. 


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Photograph by Bretzman 

HON. CHARLES W. JEWETT 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. CHARLES W. JEWETT 


H ON. CHARLES W. JEWETT, attorney, and 
Mayor of the City of Indianapolis from January 
7, 1918, to January 4, 1922, was born at Frank¬ 
lin, Indiana, January 7, 1884, son of Rev. Edward P. 
and Alma (Aten) Jewett. When but two years of age 
he was moved to Shelbyville, Indiana, by his parents 
and in the public schools of that city, when seven years 
of age, began his education. After a short time he 
moved to Paris, Indiana, where he attended school in 
the locality made famous by the ‘ ‘ Hoosier Schoolmas¬ 
ter ’ ’ and experienced all of the emotions set out in 
that noted book. From Paris his parents moved in turn 
to Kent, Morristown, Milroy and Greenwood, Indiana, 
and while living at Greenwood he entered Franklin Col¬ 
lege preparatory school. Later he entered the freshman 
class at Franklin College. In the fall of 1904 he en¬ 
tered DePauw University as a sophomore, and from that 
institution graduated in 1907, with the degree of Bache¬ 
lor of Arts. He then entered the Harvard Law School, 
concluding the prescribed courses in 1910. 

While attending college and during vacation time he 
worked as a brakeman, fireman and engineer on a rail¬ 
road construction train. While at Harvard he worked 
for the Massachusetts Republican State Committee, mak 
ing speeches and doing organization work. After that 
he went to Quebec and ran a food concession at the Ter¬ 
centenary Exposition. From this it may be seen that 
the subject of this sketch was not born with a silver 
spoon in his mouth, but is well acquainted with hard 
u ork. 

Returning to Indianapolis in the summer of 1910, Mr. 
Jewett formed a law partnership with Mr. Carl II. Weyl, 
with whom he is still associated, the firm now being Rob¬ 
bins, Weyl & Jewett. In that same year he was a can¬ 
didate for the nomination for the State Legislature on 
the Republican ticket but was defeated as a result of 
the Progressive era. In 1913, he, with others, formed 
the Republican Union in Marion County, an organization 
of young Republicans which brought together the Pro¬ 
gressives and the stand-pat elements of the party in 
Marion County. The following year he was elected 
Chairman of the Marion County Central Republican Com¬ 
mittee and so successfully managed the campaign that 
the entire ticket was elected by a big majority. In 
1916 he was elected Chairman and again his party was 
successful, Marion County giving practically the entire 
purality which elected the State ticket and carried 
Indiana for Hughes. It was this campaign which 
brought Will II. Hays out as a national figure. In 
1917 Mr. Jewett was elected Mayor of Indianapolis, 


after one of the most strenuous campaigns ever record¬ 
ed in connection with elections in the Capital City. 

Of Mr. Jewett it may be said that while he entered 
the Mayor’s office with the city deeply in debt, he 
left it four years later in first class financial condition; 
the streets in good repair; the police and fire depart¬ 
ments in an efficient condition; track elevation nearly 
completed and the war memorial project accomplished— 
that of bringing the national headquarters of the Ameri¬ 
can Legion to Indianapolis and making assured one of 
the most magnificent memorial structures in America. 
In fact, during his term of office the entire fire de¬ 
partment was motorized, a systematic plan for the col¬ 
lection and disposal of garbage and refuse w r as put into 
operation and the city budget system adopted, each of 
which has since brought about a tremendous saving each 
year to the taxpayers of the city. 

During the World War, Mr. Jewett was actively iden¬ 
tified with every drive and campaign which took place, 
personally working to bring about the realization of 
each quota and speaking times without number in be¬ 
half of each undertaking. Suffice it to say that during 
the World War, Indianapolis held a position of marked 
distinction among the cities of the country which could 
be counted upon to go ‘ ‘ over the top ’ ’ when called 
upon for material assistance in a time of national strife. 

In 1920 Mr. Jewett was a delegate from Indiana 
ro the Republican National Convention which nominated 
President Harding and in the deliberations of that body 
he took an active part. 

Upon leaving the Mayor’s office, Mr. Jewett resumed 
the practice of law, although as a private citizen he 
continues to be prominently identified with civic and 
commercial activities. He is a member of the Board of 
Directors of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company; 
vice-president of Jewett & Company, a bond house com¬ 
posed of Chester A. Jewett, Russell P. Jewett and him¬ 
self; and owner of the Arlington Stock farms. He is a 
member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. M., 
Chapter, Scottish Rite, Sahara Grotto, Murat Temple of 
the Mystic Shrine, Elks, Knights of Pythias, Moose, 
Eagles, Columbia Club, University Club, Country Club, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, Dramatic Club, Players Club, 
Century Literary Club, Chamber of Commerce and 
Board of Trade. He is also a member of the Phi Delta 
Theta college fraternity, being at this time president 
of the Epsilon Province. 

The marriage of Mr. Jewett to Miss Elizabeth 
Dougherty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dougherty, 
took place at Indianapolis, October 25, 1913. 


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AQUILLA Q. JONES 


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AQUILLA Q. JONES 


A QUILLA Q. JONES, son of Aquilla and 
Harriet (Cox) Jones, was born at Co 
lumbus, Indiana, April 14, 1852. For half a 
century or more bis father was a leader in state 
politics and public affairs of Indiana. From 
1856 to 1860 (two terms) he was treasurer of 
state and during other years ably served in the 
legislature in various official capacities under 
the Commonwealth. In addition lie was post¬ 
master at Indianapolis under the Cleveland ad¬ 
ministration and an influential business man of 
Indianapolis. 

Aquilla Q., subject of this sketch, obtained 
his early education in the common schools of 
Columbus, continued from there at the Farm¬ 
ington (Maine) Academy, Bloomington (In¬ 
diana) State University, and completed his 
preparation for his profession at Racine Col¬ 
lege, Wisconsin. From the latter institution 
he was graduated in 1874 and soon afterward 
began the study of law at Columbia College, 
New York City, in 1875. 

Soon after completing his course at Colum¬ 
bia College, Mr. Jones located at Indianapolis, 
and in this city he has from that time created a 
very substantial reputation as an attorney at 
the bar. During his practice of law Mr. Jones 
has been both alone and in partnership, his 
associations including such men as the lion. 
Thomas L. Sullivan and the Hon. Alexander C 
Ayres. At the present time he is a member of 
the firm of Jones, Hammond & Jones. 

In 1893 Mr. Jones was appointed city attor¬ 
ney of Indianapolis, and with great credit held 
that office until the end of Mayor Sullivan’s 
administration. lie has also served as a mem¬ 
ber of the Indiana State Board of Charities, 
having been appointed to that office by the 
late Governor Claude Mathews. lie was for 
a number of years a member of the Sinking 
Fund Committee of Indianapolis, being the 
first chairman of that body, and for two terms. 
(1909-11) was president of the Indianapolis 
Board of Trade. 


Mr. Jones was vice-president of the Centen¬ 
nial Committee at the time of the Indiana State 
Centennial in 1916. During the World War he 
was chairman of one of the draft boards and 
chairman of the War Activities Committee of 
the War Chest, the organization which made 
possible the present Community Chest plan for 
providing for Indianapolis charities in a sys¬ 
tematic, economical and efficient manner. 

Mr. Jones is a member of the Indianapolis 
Chamber of Commerce and one of the founder 
members of the Indiana Democratic Club. He 
is also a member of the American Bar Associa¬ 
tion, Indiana Bar Association, and the Indian¬ 
apolis Bar Association. Of the latter organiza¬ 
tion he was president during the trying period 
of the war, and although his other activities at 
that time took much of his energy and personal 
attention, his Bar Association administration 
was one of outstanding accomplishments. Mr. 
Jones is also at this time a member of the Board 
of Community Welfare of the City of Indian¬ 
apolis, having been originally appointed to that 
position by lion. Charles W. Jewett while the 
latter was mayor of Indianapolis. 

In his religious faith Mr. Jones is a member 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, for which 
he has been an active worker and staunch sup¬ 
porter. He has for many years been a Chan¬ 
cellor of the Indianapolis Episcopal Diocese 
and is at this time Senior Wadren of the Church 
of the Advent at Thirty-third and Meridian 
Streets. 

On January 26, 1881, Mr. Jones married 
Miss Annie L. Raschig of Indianapolis. To 
them was born one son, Walter D., on October 
22, 1885. Walter D. attended the Howe Mil¬ 
itary Academy, Kenyon College, the Indiana 
State University—College of Law—and the 
University of Michigan. After his admission 
to the bar and until his untimely death, Jan¬ 
uary 8, 1920, he was associated with his father 
in the practice of law. 


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Photograph by Champlain Studios—New York 

ARTHUR JORDAN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ARTHUR JORDAN 


A RTHUR JORDAN, philanthropist, widely 
known churchman, and promoter of 
many charities, has been a leader in nearly all 
of the city’s important activities for nearly 
fifty years. lie has also long since attained 
nation-wide prominence by reason of the many 
extensive business enterprises which he has suc¬ 
cessfully established here and elsewhere, ten or 
more in number, all permanent in character, 
and which have long commanded the confi¬ 
dence and admiration of the community. 

Early in his business life Mr. Jordan de¬ 
veloped an extensive creamery butter industry, 
gathering the cream from farms over a large 
area in Indiana and Illinois. It was the first 
business of its kind undertaken up to that time 
in this state. In connection with this enter¬ 
prise he built the first mechanical refrigerating 
machine installed here and imported the first 
cream separator ever used in the United States. 

Mr. Jordan later engaged very extensively 
in the packing of eggs and poultry, and ship¬ 
ping such produce to distant markets from a 
large number of centralizing stations. He was 
a pioneer in this also, establishing the first reg¬ 
ular line of refrigerating cars between this city 
and the East for the transportation of such 
perishable freight. For many years he was 
easily the leader in this line, and his products, 
raised in Indiana and Illinois, were well known 
and sought for in all the markets of the East. 

The Keyless Lock Company, of Indianap¬ 
olis, manufacturer and builder of government 
postoffice equipment; the International Ma¬ 
chine Tool Company, of this city, manufactur¬ 
ing turret lathes; the Disco Electric Manufac¬ 
turing Company, of Detroit, Michigan, man¬ 
ufacturer and distributor of Tiltlock steering 
wheels, shock absorbers, and other widely 
advertised automobile accessories, are among 
the manufacturing enterprises which lie estab¬ 
lished and owned and in which he still retains 
an interest. 


The Printing Arts Company, and the City 
Ice and Coal Company, both of this city, and 
the Arthur Jordan Piano Company, of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., all large and successful concerns, 
were originated and developed under his own¬ 
ership and direction. 

As president of the Meridian Life Insurance 
Company and chief owner of its capital stock, 
he developed in less than twenty years one of 
the strongest and best life insurance companies 
in the United States. 

All of these various concerns, commercial, 
financial and manufacturing, indicate clearly 
the marvelous capacity for business organiza¬ 
tion and the genius of this man of whom the 
city is so justly proud. Thoroughness, perse¬ 
verance, accurate business judgment, broad 
vision and resourcefulness are all characteristic 
of the man, accounting in large degree for the 
successful outcome of all his various enter¬ 
prises. 

While owning and developing these ten or 
more lines of business, Air. Jordan has always 
heen actively connected with the principal com¬ 
mercial, religious, educational, social and phi¬ 
lanthropic bodies of the city of his residence, 
usually as an officer, member of the executive 
committee or managing hoard. Of an unusu¬ 
ally modest, almost diffident nature, Mr. Jor¬ 
dan s advice and counsel has always been 
sought by, but never thrust upon, his associates 
and friends. 

Mr. Jordan was born in the city of Madison, 
Indiana, September I, 1855. He* has been an 
earnest and enthusiastic worker all of his life, 
taking little time for play, and having no time 
to waste or trifle away. Today his appearance 
is that of a man of fifty, which he attributes to 
his active and energetic habits and his clean 
moral life. His friends would attribute it also 
to his constant thoughtfulness of others and his 
never-failing helpfulness to his friends in their 
time of need. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



OSCAR A. JOSE 


Photograph hy Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


OSCAR A. JOSE 

^ASCAR A. JOSE, president of the City Builders Realty Com¬ 
pany, Jose Kuhn Lumber Company, the City Builders Fi¬ 
nance Company, secretary-treasurer of the Jose-Balz Company 
and secretary-treasurer of the Jose-Balz Realty Company, was 
born at Indianapolis, February 19, 1879, son of Nicholas and 
Johanna (Branchla) Jose. His early education was obtained in 
the grade schools of Indianapolis, after which he attended Manual 
Training High School and from which he graduated in 1899. 
Upon the completion of this work Mr. Jose engaged in the decor¬ 
ating business for a number of years, both in this city and in New 
York, after which he became associated with Mr. Peter F. Balz 
in the realty, building and lumber business and in which he has 
been conspicuously identified to this time in the capacities prev¬ 
iously noted. 

Of particular interest in this sketch relative to Mr. Jose is 
his activity, through the City Building Realty Company at Palm 
Beach, Florida. In that city his interests have developed and 
built up, from a hotel to a cottage colony, the nucleus of what 
promises to be one of the outstanding residential projects of that 
Southern State. Through their holdings the City Builders’ Realty 
Company has done much to create decidedly substantial properties 
in both Palm Beach and West Palm Beacii, although at this time 
the company is also doing much towards the development of cer 
tain tracts in the city of Miami, Florida. 

The Jose Kuhn Lumber Company, operating in Indianap¬ 
olis, possesses probably the most complete building plant in the 
United States, this plant operating lumber yards, planing mills, 
painting plants, heating establishments, plumbing establishments 
and all such other departments as are necessary in the line of 
business pertaining to the erection of homes. 

In addition to these enterprises, Mr. Jose is now working on 
what will probably prove to be one of the most complete Country 
Clubs in the Central states. It is proposed to develop a club hav¬ 
ing golf, tennis and swimming facilities and riding paths, located 
on White River, north of Indianapolis. 

Mr. Jose is a member of the Highland Golf and Country 
Club, Hoosier Athletic Club, and in the Masonic fraternity is a 
member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite 
and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

The marriage of Mr. Jose to Miss Jean Leitch occurred in In¬ 
dianapolis, December 5, 1901. There are two children, Oscar A. 
Jose, Jr., and Frances Catherine Jose. The family residence is at 
3048 Fall Creek Boulevard. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Moorefield 

FREDERICK W. JUNGCLAUS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FREDERICK W. JUNGCLAUS 


F rederick w. jungclaus, building 

contractor, secretary and treasurer of the 
Wm. P. Jungclaus Company, 825-837 Massa¬ 
chusetts Avenue, was born at Indianapolis, De¬ 
cember 5, 1875, son of William P. and Marie S. 
Jungclaus. lie spent but a few years in the 
Indianapolis public schools, leaving when he 
was fourteen years of age to become associated 
with his father in the contracting business, then 
known as Jungclaus & Schumacher. 

From carpenter’s apprentice, bookkeeper 
and estimator, Mr. Jungclaus advanced through 
the business until January, 1907, when he was 
elected secretary-treasurer of the company, of 
which his father, William P. Jungclaus, is the 
president and his brother, II. P. Jungclaus, the 
vice-president. The partnership between Mr. 
Wm. P. Jungclaus and Mr. John A. Schumach¬ 
er was dissolved in March, 1895. The Wm. P. 
Jungclaus Company was incorporated immedi¬ 
ately after the dissolution of the firm of Jung¬ 
claus & Schumacher. 

Wm. P. Jungclaus Company has been the 
builder of many important structures in In¬ 
dianapolis, including the English Hotel and 
Theatre, Public Library building, Meridian and 
Ohio Streets; Merchants National Bank build¬ 
ing, Hotel Edward, Bankers Trust Company 
building, Indiana Trust Company, Pennsylva¬ 
nia Railroad Inbound Freight Houses, a num¬ 
ber of Public School buildings, Stutz Motor Car 
Company, II. C. S. Factory, Stutz Fire Engine 
Company, most of the buildings for the G. & J. 
Tire Company, Guaranty building, Real Silk 
Hosiery Mills, Administration building and 
power house for the Indianapolis Sanitary Dis¬ 
trict, Indianapolis Glove Company, and Murat 
Temple. 


In addition to the above, there have been 
numerous other structures erected throughout 
the city and State of Indiana, chief among 
which were buildings at Purdue University and 
St. Mary-of-the-Woods. 

The Wm. P. Jungclaus Company has made 
a specialty of all classes of construction work, 
industrial, office, public and fine residence 
buildings. In connection with their operations 
they have a modern mill building and a large 
stock of lumber which they carry at all times. 

In the building trades, Mr. Jungclaus has 
been exceedingly active. He is president of 
the Building Contractors’ Association in this 
city, president of the Associated Building Con¬ 
tractors of Indiana, a director of the Builders 
and Manufacturers’ Mutual Casualty Company 
of Chicago, Illinois, a director of the State Bank 
of Massachusetts Avenue, and a director of the 
Polar Ice and Fuel Company, in this city. 

In connection with the presidency of the 
Associated Building Contractors of Indiana, it 
is of interest to here note that Mr. Jungclaus is 
now serving his second term in that capacity, 
an honor which has never before been held by 
any member of the organization. 

Mr. Jungclaus is a member of the Indianap¬ 
olis Athetlic Club, the Academy of Music, the 
Athenaeum, the Columbia Club, and the Ma¬ 
sonic bodies—Scottish Rite and Mystic Shrine. 
He was, until his recent resignation, a member 
of the Board of Trustees of Woodruff Place. 

On June 7, 1899, Mr. Jungclaus married 
Miss Bertha Langenberg at Indianapolis. They 
have one son, William II., who is a member of 
the Civil Engineering class of 1923 at Purdue 
University. The family home is at 4057 North 
Meridian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



J. G. KARSTEDT 


Photograph by Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN G. KARSTEDT 


JOHN G. KARSTEDT, general contractor, was born at Elm- 
J wood, Gray County, Ontario, Canada, October 21, 1871, son of 
August and Mary (Danliause) Karstedt. The early education of 
the subject of this sketch was obtained in the public schools in the 
city of his birth, after which, when but twelve years of age, he 
became an apprentice brick-layer. In this he engaged at Elmwood 
until he became sufficiently proficient in masonry to enable him 
to take up the business independently and then for a period of 
twenty-five years, Mr. Karstedt did masonry work in various 
parts of the United States, coming, in 1898, to Indianapolis where 
he has since resided. 


In connection with the business career of Mr. Karstedt it is of 
interest to here relate that during all of the twenty-five years just 
mentioned, he was looking forward to and planning for that time 
when he would be qualified to establish a general contracting busi¬ 
ness. Hardships of all varieties were his as he followed the brick¬ 
laying business in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Michigan, 
Georgia, Texas and other states, but true to the adage that deter¬ 
mination and perseverance are the real forerunners of definite 
achievement, he has attained to the goal of his ambition and is at 
this time among the dominating figures of his chosen field of 
endeavor. 

Among the well known public and semi-public structures of 
Indianapolis undertaken and successfully completed by Mr. 
Karstedt are the Sunken Gardens at Garfield Park, the artistic 
and permanent brick wall entirely surrounding Crown Hill Ceme¬ 
tery, the Methodist Hospital Annex, two of the more recent build¬ 
ings erected at the Insane Hospital, the Cloister at the Sisters of 
the Good Shepherds, the industrial building for the Board of In¬ 
dustrial Aid for the Blind, and the new Horse Barns at the State 
Fair grounds. 

Mr. Karstedt is a member of the Columbia Club, Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, Hoosier Motor Club, Benevolent and Protective 
Order of Elks, No. 13, and the Chamber of Commerce. 

The marriage of Mr. Karstedt to Miss Linna Ullom occurred 
at Indianapolis January 31, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Karstedt reside 
at 2430 North Delaware Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Moffett—Chicago 

ALFRED 0. KAUFFMANN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ALFRED OTTO KAUFFMANN 

ALFRED OTTO KAUFFMANN, vice-president and general 

manager of the Link-Belt Company of Indianapolis, son of 
"William K. and Louise (Startz) Kauffmann, was born in Ger¬ 
many, August 20, 1879. The fathe r came to America when Alfred 
O., of this sketch, was scarcely over three years of age, while the 
mother with the son followed some eighteen months later. The 
son's early education was received in the public schools of New 
York City and Rutherford, New Jersey, but at the age of fifteen 
he left the public schools and, on November 12, 1894, apprenticed 
himself to the General Electric Company at Schenectady, New 
York, serving in the tool room of that organization until August. 
1895. 

In the year mentioned he entered the machine shop of Robert 
Hoe & Company, New York City, manufacturers of printing 
presses, and with that concern continued his apprenticeship until 
the fall of 1898. "While in the employe of the Robert Hoe & Com¬ 
pany, he studied at the Cooper Union Night School, New York 
City. In 1898 he determined to secure an advanced mechanical 
education and entered the Pratt Institute at Brooklyn, New 
York, from which he graduated in 1901, with the degree of Me¬ 
chanical Engineer. 

Upon the completion of this course, Mr. Kauffmann entered 
the employe of the Link-Belt Company as draftsman, which posi¬ 
tion he held until August, 1906, when he was appointed superin¬ 
tendent of construction, serving in that capacity until July, 1909, 
when he was appointed sales engineer in charge of the West 
Virginia territory. 

His work in this field was varied and covered the designing, 
sales and construction of coal tipples and coal mining work in 
general. He served in this position until January, 1913, when he 
was appointed assistant to the president of the company and trans ¬ 
ferred to the Chicago office. In July, 1913, he was appointed 
manager of the Philadelphia plant in charge of operations of the 
company’s eastern division. In October, 1914, he was transferred 
to Indiana and in February, 1915, was appointed vice-president 
and general manager of the Indianapolis plants—which positions 
he still holds. In addition to this, Mr. Kauffmann is a member of 
the Board of Directors of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Com¬ 
pany. 

'Mr. Kauffmann is a member of the Indianapolis Country 
Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, Columbia Club, Athen¬ 
aeum, ILoosier Athletic Club and Manufacturer’s Club of Phila¬ 
delphia. 

The marriage of Mr. Kauffmann to Miss Mable Frances Ul¬ 
rich occurred on June 9, 1915, at Philadelphia. The family home 
is at 4511 Broadway. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Moorefield 


CHARLES J. KAVANAUGH 









INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CHARLES J. KAVANAUGH 

^HARLES J. KAVANAUGH, president and treasurer of the 
Kavanaugli Broom Corn Company, 1014 East Michigan Street, 
was born at Sheldon, New York, November 11, 1886, the son of 
M. H. and Annie (Gaffney) Kavanaugli. His early education was 
obtained at Chicago, Illinois, after which he was employed by the 
Illinois Trust and Savings Company at Chicago for a compara¬ 
tively short period of time. 

Following this preliminary work, Mr. Kavanaugli entered the 
broom corn business at Chicago with his father and uncle and it 
was during this time that he learned the business in which for the 
past several years he has been continuously identified. Mr. Ka- 
vanaugh’s sales experience was obtained, however, during an ex¬ 
perience of several years as a salesman for the Spaulding & Mer¬ 
rick Tobacco Company with which he was associated from 1909 
to 1915, when he came to Indianapolis and here founded the Ka- 
vanaugh Broom Corn Company. 

During the World War Mr. Kavanaugli was an active worker 
in the War Chest campaign and was also associated with each of 
the Liberty Loan drives. Since that time lias been interested in 
many civic campaigns and enterprises. He is a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce, Columbia Club, Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, Indianapolis Rotary Club and the Knights of Columbus. 

The marriage of Mr. Kavanaugli to Miss Mary B. Fursten- 
berg took place at Hutchinson, Kansas, January 15, 1912. There 
are three children, Barbara Ann, Alice Marie and Mary Joan. 
The family residence is at 4218 Park Avenue. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



ROBERT B. KEITH 


Photograph by Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ROBERT BENJAMIN KEITH 

J^OBERT BENJAMIN KEITH, president and treasurer of the 

Henry C. Smither Roofing and Sheet Metal Company, the 
oldest establishment of its kind in Indianapolis, was born August 
15, 1862, at Edwardsport, Indiana, son of Dr. Benjamin F. and 
Hannah (Culbertson) Keith. 

As a boy he received his education in the schools of Edwards¬ 
port and later attended DePauw University, upon the completion 
of which work he taught school for a while. In 1885 he came to 
Indianapolis to read law, and two years later, in 1887 was admitted 
to the bar. For twelve years thereafter Mr. Keith continued in 
the legal profession and then became secretary of the Indiana 
Hotel Company. 

In 1907 he resigned that position and went to Seattle, Wash¬ 
ington, where he resided for about a year and a half, at the expira¬ 
tion of which time he returned to his native state. 

Soon after his return, he acquired an interest in, and became 
secretary of the Henry C. Smither Roofing Company, which has 
been in continuous operation since 1868. In 1919 he purchased 
Mr. Smither’s interest in the company and since that time has been 
president and treasurer of the company. 

Mr. Keith is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the 
Marion Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, and the Kiwanis 
Club. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the 
First Baptist Church. 

On October 13, 1907 Mr. Keith married Miss Martha M. Car- 
roll of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Keith reside at 102 North Meridian 
Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



T. J. KELLY 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


THOMAS J. KELLY 


T HOMAS J. KELLY, president of the Ad¬ 
vance Paint Company, located at 540 
West Norwood Street, was born July 7, 1875, 
at Chicago, Illinois, the son of John and Brid¬ 
get (Casey) Kelly. 

After obtaining his early education in the 
public schools of Indianapolis, Mr. Kelly pur¬ 
sued a course in a business college of this city 
and then at the age of fourteen years secured 
a position with the Udell Works, with which 
organization he began work for the munificent 
sum of two dollars per week. 

Six years later he was placed in charge of 
the finishing department of the Udell Works, 
which he contracted to take over entirely upon 
his own responsibility and as a result was able 
to materially increase his own remuneration 
This arrangement lasted for a period of three 
years when a change in the general manage¬ 
ment abrogated his contract. Mr. Kelly ac¬ 
cepted a position with the Rockwell & Rupel 
Company of Wabash, Indiana, bookcase manu¬ 
facturers, where he assumed charge of the 
finishing department. This association lasted 
but a short time, however, and upon its con¬ 
clusion Mr. Kelly returned to Indianapolis to 
become associated with the Regal Manufactur¬ 
ing Company, manufacturers of musical instru¬ 
ments, as manager of the finishing department. 

Two years later Mr. Kelly transferred his 
activities to the Shelbyville Desk Company at 
Shelbyville, Indiana, in a similar capacity for 
a similar length of time, but by this time he 
had attained a wide reputation as an expert 
in the use of colors and stains and so in 1905, 
as a so-called “special man” on stains and 
fillers, became connected with the Marietta 
Paint & Color Company of Marietta, Ohio, with 
which company he remained until 1907, when 


he again returned to Indianapolis to become 
associated with the Lilly Varnish Company 
and the Advance Paint Company as an expert 
in stains and varnishes. In 1912 Mr. Kelly, 
together with the late Charles Gemmer and A. 
Whitfleet, purchased the Advance Paint Com¬ 
pany, of which Mr. Kelly became the secre¬ 
tary. Upon the death of Mr. Gemmer, in May, 
1917, Mr. Kelly was elected president of the 
company. 

In addition to the plant operated at Indi¬ 
anapolis, the company has a plant at Evans¬ 
ville, Indiana, and in this connection it is par¬ 
donable to here mention the fact that the com¬ 
pany's business has reached an enviable posi¬ 
tion in the paint and color industry. The busi¬ 
ness last year reached a total volume close to 
the million dollar mark. 

In addition to the above affiliation, Mr. 
Kelly is president and general manager of the 
Indiana Naval Stores Company of Indianap¬ 
olis, president of the Shelton Vapor Stove 
Company of Indianapolis and treasurer of the 
Cooperative Savings & Loan Association of In¬ 
dianapolis. 

The civic and social organizations to which 
Mr. Kelly belongs include the Indianapolis 
Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, Indiana Democratic Club, the Elks Club, 
Indianapolis Paint, Oil and Varnish Club, of 
which he was president in 1919, and National 
Paint, Oil & Varnish Association. 

The marriage of Mr. Kelly to Miss Cora 
B. Doolittle of Madison, Indiana, occurred 
March 20, 1897, at Indianapolis. There are 
two children, Robert E., who is now secretary 
of the Advance Paint Company and Miss Mary 
Katherine. The family residence is at 4305 
College Avenue. 


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PHIL G. KERZ 


Photograph hy Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


PHIL GEORGE KERZ 


pHIL GEORGE KERZ, president and owner of the Liberty 
Market, Inc., son of Nick and Phillippina (Bernd) Iverz, 
was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, May 7, 1877, the only son of 
eight children. In the public schools of the city of his birth he 
obtained his early education, after which he served an apprentice¬ 
ship as a pattern maker. He then assumed charge of the pattern 
shops in the foundry of Chandler & Taylor and in this work con¬ 
tinued until 1902, when he became engaged in the grocery business. 


Upon the death of his father which occurred in 1907, Mr. Iverz 
merged the grocery business previously conducted by his father, 
with that of his own, and formed the Nick Iverz Company, a large 
department store now located at West Michigan and Patterson 
Streets. In 1918, he formed the Liberty Market, a large self-serve 
grocery store now located at 350 East Washington Street, and the 
first of its kind to operate in Indianapolis. 


Mr. Iverz is a charter member of the Pattern Makers Associa¬ 
tion, formed in 1897, and a charter member of the Indianapolis 
Retail Grocers Association, formed in 1902. He is also a member 
of Elks Lodge, No. 13, B. P. O. E., Athenaeum, Mannerchor, 
Chamber of Commerce, Iviwanis Club, Advertising Club and, since 
1918, has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Grocers 
Baking Company of this city. 

On February 7, 1903, Mr. Iverz married Miss Clara Belle 
Jennings at Terre Haute, Indiana. There is one child, Virginia 
Belle. 


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EARL W. KIGER 


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EARL W. KIGER 

|7 ARL AY. IvIGER, sole owner of Kiger & Company, dealers in 
1 school supplies, road machinery and culvert pipe, was born on 
a farm in Union County, Indiana, near College Corner, Ohio, May 
14, 1882, the fifth of six children of Harvey and Jane (Doty) 
Kiger. His early education was obtained in the public schools of 
the county of his birth and the public schools of Madison County, 
where the family moved when he was nine years of age. The father, 
a progressive farmer, died when Earl AA T . was but fourteen years 
of age, after which he farmed and managed the property for about 
four years until he and his mother moved to Indianapolis. He 
then here attended a commercial school, from which he graduated 
in 1902. 

Immediately upon completion of the foregoing, Mr. Kiger 
became associated with J. D. Adams & Company of Indianapolis 
as traveling representative and in this capacity remained until 
1905 when he, together with his brother, organized S. D. Kiger & 
Company, dealers in school supplies and road machinery. 

In 1910 Mr. Kiger purchased the interest of his brother in 
S. D. K iger & Company and at that time changed the name to 
Kiger & Company. For seventeen yeais the business was located 
on Capital Avenue at Market Street but on January 1, 1923, it was 
moved to 113 South Pennsylvania Street, the present address, with 
double capacity. 

In connection with these experiences and those that have 
since followed, it has frequently been said of All*. Kiger, who has 
traveled from ocean to ocean and from Canada to Mexico, that he 
is possessed of one of the largest acquaintanceships in the State 
of Indiana, knowing intimately practically every school and road 
official of the state for the last twenty years. 

Air. Kiger has been actively identified with various drives of 
the Community Chest of recent years, is a member of the Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce, Hoosier Motor Club and Kiwanis Club and in 
the Masonic fraternity is a member of Irvington, No. 666, F. & 
A. AL, Scottish Rite, Raper Commandery, Keystone Chapter and 
a life member of the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is 
also a member of the Christian Church. 

The marriage of All*. Kiger to Aliss Sadie Alachlan, daughter 
of John Alachlan, a Alethodist minister of the Indiana Conference, 
took place at Carthage, Indiana. Alav 14, 1910. She died Febru¬ 
ary 28, 1915. O 11 June 15, 1916. All*. Kiger married Aliss Alary 
Carter! daughter of Isaac Carter, of Shelbyville. She died 011 Oc¬ 
tober 31, 1917. On July 16, 1919 All*. Kiger married Aliss Lora 
Canaday, daughter of S. A. Canadav, of AVinchester. There are 
five children, YVilliam, Alary Kathryn, Richard, Elizabeth and 
Barbara. All*, and Airs. Kiger reside at 3060 North Delaware 

Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JOHN R. KINGHAN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN R. KINGHAN 

TOHN R. KINGHAN, vice-president and general manager of 
* Kingan & Company, which firm is known as the largest individ¬ 
ual hog packing plant in the United States, was born at Belfast, 
Ireland, August 6, 1874, son of John and Jane Gordon (Dill) 
Kinghan. He obtained his early education at the Royal Academi¬ 
cal Institution at Belfast, after which he attended Watson Col¬ 
lege, Edinburgh, Scotland. Shortly after the completion of this 
instruction Mr. Kinghan became affiliated with the parent pack¬ 
ing plant of Kingan & Company, located at Belfast. He was with 
this plant, of which his father was director, for a period of approx¬ 
imately ten years when, in 1902, he came to Indianapolis to be¬ 
come associated with the plant of Kingan & Company, operated 
in this citv. Since the day of his arrival in this citv Mr. Kinghan 
has been connected with the company in various capacities, now 
serving as vice-president and general manager, as previously 
stated. 

The Indianapolis plant of Kingan & Company, the head plant 
of the organization, was created in 1862. Branch plants are oper¬ 
ated in various cities of the United States, while foreign offices 
are maintained in several cities in Europe. 

Mr. Kinghan, who has been actively identified with civic and 
philanthropic undertakings of the city since coming to Indian¬ 
apolis to establish his home, is a member of the University Club, 
Country Club, Woodstock Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Hoos- 
ier Motor Club and the Chamber of Commerce. 

The marriage of Mr. Kinghan to Miss Charlotte E. Macaw 
took place in Belfast, Ireland, in 1902. There is one son, John 
Gordon Kinghan. The family residence is at 3225 North Mer¬ 
idian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



HORACE E. KINNEY 


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HORACE EDGAR KINNEY 


H ORACE EDGAR KINNEY, president of 
the IT. E. Kinney Grain Co., was born at 
Stilesville, Indiana, in Hendricks County, Sep¬ 
tember 6, 1858. His parents were Lazarus, a 
country merchant, and Maria, whose maiden 
name had been Jackson, and whose father was 
a descendant of Andrew Jackson, hero of New 
Orleans during the War of 1812, and later 
President of the United States. 

Mr. Kinney’s great grandfather had come 
to America with his parents when a boy, settled 
in New Jersey, later moved to Virginia and at¬ 
tained the ripe old age of 104. He fought in 
the war for Independence. The grandfather, 
John Kinney, was in the War of 1812, and also 
in the Indian wars of Kentucky and Indiana. 
The father of Mr. Kinney, Lazarus, being an 
invalid was not in the War of the Rebellion. 
His mother’s ancestors, as noted at the begin¬ 
ning of this sketch, were related to Andrew 
Jackson and settled at Vincennes in the year 
1800 when the country from the Ohio River to 
the Great Lakes was a wilderness inhabited 
mostly by Indidans. They were pioneers in 
the real sense of the word, and were intimately 
identified with the great work of laying the 
foundations of Indiana. 

It may readily be seen from the foregoing, 
that Air. Kinney may lay claim to being a “Son 
of the American Revolution,” as well as a “Son 
of the War of 1812.” In view of the fact like¬ 
wise that his maternal ancestors were in Indi¬ 
ana as early as 1800 he may well claim member¬ 
ship in a society of “Sons of Indiana,” when¬ 
ever such an organization is formed. 

Air. Kinney began his schooling in the com¬ 
mon schools of Hendricks County but removed 
to Quincy with his parents at the age of nine. 
It was there that he became interested in teleg¬ 
raphy which he began to master, at the same 
time attending night school. At a tender age 
he became telegraph operator on the Vandalia 
railroad and in the Western Union Telegraph 
office, at length being transferred to the com¬ 
pany’s Chicago office where he worked for four 
years, including a short time spent at Spring- 
field, Illinois, where he did Associated Press 
work. 


In 1880 Air. Kinney came to Indianapolis to 
lake charge ol the Associated Press department 
of the Western Union and remained in this 
capacity until he was appointed manager of 
the United Lines Telegraph Company. When 
the United Telegraph Company opened an of¬ 
fice in Indianapolis in 1882 he was selected 
manager of the office, but soon after he re¬ 
signed to learn the grain business with which 
Ms abilities have ever since been connected. 
For a few years prior to 1887 he Avas in the 
office of Messrs. J. A. Closser & Co. of this city 
learning the grain merchandising business and 
in 1887 he associated himself with Milton A. 
Woollen and George W. Johnson in establish¬ 
ing the Indianapolis Grain and Feed Co. and 
became I reasurer of the concern. Two years 
later this company was dissolved and since 
that time Mr. Kinney has been in the grain 
business, first under the name of H. E. Kinney 
& ( o. and since 1909, when the company was 
incorporated, under the name of the H. E. Kin- 
neA Grain Company, of which he has been con¬ 
tinuously the president. 

For the past thirty-five years he has been 
officially connected with the Indianapolis 
Board of Trade. In 1896 he became vice-pres¬ 
ident and the following year its president 
Since 1898 with the exception of two yearsj 
namely 1900 to 1902 when he was absent from 
the city, he has been a member of its Board of 
Governors. 

Tie is also a member of the National Grain 
Dealers’ Association, Indiana Grain Dealers’ 
Association, Columbia Club, Indianapolis Ath¬ 
letic Club, Woodstock Club, Academy of Mu¬ 
sic and Athemeum. In the Masonic fraternity 
he is a member of Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398, 
Indianapolis Council, Keystone Chapter, Raper 
( ommandery, Indiana Consistorv and Murat 
Temple. In politics Mr. Kinney is identified 
with the Republican party and his religious af¬ 
filiation is with the First Baptist Church, of 
which he has been a trustee for the past eight 
years. 

, IIe w as married to Laura J. Robards April 
13, 1882. To this union were born two children 
Ilazel Augusta (deceased) and Mrs. Clemens 
Otto Mueller (Zuleme). Mr. and Mrs. Kinney 
reside at 3209 North Meridian Street 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



SOL. S. KISER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


SOL S. KISER 

S OL S. KISER, banker, vice-president of the Meyer-Iviser Bank, was born 
at Fort Recovery, Ohio, January 23, 1858, the second of seven children of 
Gottlieb and Fannie (Steinfeld) Kiser, both of whom were natives of Ilesse- 
Cassell. Ilis early education was received in the Fort Recovery (Ohio) public 
schools. 

When he was twenty years old he left Fort Recovery and went to Union 
City, Indiana, where he engaged in clerical work for three years. In 1881 he 
came to Indianapolis and became a clerk in a clothing store, remaining in that 
position until 1886, when he established a mercantile business for himself on 
West Washington Street. 

Entering the real estate and loaning business with Mr. Sol Meyer in 1895, 
the two continued in this business until April, 1906, when they founded the 
Meyer-Kiser Bank, Mr. Kiser becoming the vice-president. For nine years, 
between 1901 and 1910, Mr. Kiser was a director of the Indianapolis Commer¬ 
cial Club, now known as the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. He was also 
a vice-president of the organization for two years. 

Since 1885 he has been active in the work of the Jewish order B’nai Britli 
and was president of the district organization in 1896-1897. He has also been 
a trustee of the Cleveland Jewish Orphans’ Home for a number of years and 
for the past three years has been president of that institution. He is also a trus¬ 
tee and member of the executive committee of the National Jewish Hospital for 
Consumptives at Denver, Colorado, and since November, 1922, has been a mem¬ 
ber of the American Jewish Committee. He was chairman of the Indianapolis 
branch of the Removal Committee of New York City as long as that organization 
was in existence. 

In 1916 Mr. Kiser was appointed a member of the State Park Commission 
which raised the funds for and purchased Turkey Run and McCormick Creek 
parks. In addition to this he was treasurer of the State Park Commission dur¬ 
ing its existence and Chairman of the Marion County Committee during the 
lifetime of that body. 

During the World War Mr. Kiser was exceedingly active in Jewish relief 
work, having been treasurer for the State of Indiana of the American Jewish 
Relief Committee, which position he still retains, and also state treasurer of the 
Indiana Hoover Fund. He was also, during the war, actively identified with 
all Liberty Loan drives and, as a member of the Committee of the Boys Work¬ 
ing Reserve from the creation of that organization until it was disbanded at the 
close of the conflict, gave untiringly of his time and energy. 

Mr. Kiser married Miss Dina Salzenstein at Springfield, Illinois, June 19, 
1889. Mrs. Kiser died December 16, 1917. There are two children: Julian J. 
Kiser, who is now associated with his father in the banking business, and Mrs. 
Melville S. Cohn, nee Ruth C. Kiser. On October 12, 1922, Mr. Kiser married 
Miss Kate Weis of Cleveland, Ohio. The residence is at 3734 Washington 
Boulevard. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JOHN S. KITTLE 


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IN DIANAPOLI S 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN S. KITTLE 

JOHN S. KITTLE, president of the City Ice & Coal Company, 
^ the Printing Arts Company and the Columbia Investment Com¬ 
pany, was born at Seward, Nebraska, December 24, 1883, son of 
John S. and Rena (Dubue) Kittle. 

When twelve years of age he was brought to Indianapolis by 
his parents and in this city obtained his early education, graduat¬ 
ing from the Manual Training School in 1902. He then attended 
Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, being a member of the 
class of 3906. 

Mr. Kittle is a member of the University Club, Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, Hoosier Athletic 
Club, Marion Club, and Indianapolis Rotary Club. He is also a 
member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. M. The marriage of 
Mr. Kittle to Miss Alma Jordan occurred at Indianapolis, October 
30, 3906. There are three children, Rosamond, Majorie and John 
Sloan Kittle, Jr. The family residence is at 3444 North Pennsyl¬ 
vania Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



W. W. KNIGHT 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


WILLIAM W. KNIGHT 

YY/ILLTAAI AY. KNIGHT, owner of the Long-Knight Lumber 
** Company, was born May 8, 1862, at Germantown, Phila¬ 
delphia, Pennsylvania, son of AYilliam A. and Sarah (Pickney) 
Knight. It was in the Society of Friends School at Germantown 
that he received his education. 

First engaging in the carpet industry at Philadelphia, Air. 
Knight left that to enter the lumber industry as a clerk for the 
R. A. & J. J. AVilliams Company, of Philadelphia, and remained 
with that concern six years. 

Coming to Indianapolis in 38S8, he became associated with 
Air. Henry C. Long as manager of the lumber business of Air. 
Long. In 1893 he left the lumber business and went to Portland. 
Oregon, where he stayed about a year. Returning to Indianapolis, 
he established a lumber business, and in 3898 he and Air. Long 
merged their lumber interests and Mr. Knight became president 
and treasurer. In 3920 the charter for the Long-Ivnight Lumber 
Company, at Pratt Street and Sherman Drive and 3025 Lewis 
Street, was surrendered and Air. Knight became the sole owner 
of the business, which has been a big factor in making Indianapolis 
a city of homes. 

In the lumber industry Air. Knight has been a prominent 
figure. He was for twelve years a director and one year president 
of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers’ Association, a member 
of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, the American 
Walnut Manufacturers’ Association and the Walnut Export 
Sales Company. 

Air. Knight has been active in the Indianapolis Chamber of 
Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. 
He is a member of the University Club, the Country Club of In¬ 
dianapolis, Woodstock Country Club, the Dramatic Club and 
Masonic organizations. He is a member of the Episcopal church. 
His recreation is golf. 

All*. Knight married Aliss Gertrude Jordan at Indianapolis 
in 3893. She died in 1892. On December 2, 3932, he married 
Aliss Ethlvn Prentice at Leroy, New York. The home is at 3235 
North Pennsylvania Street. 

Mr. Knight’s earliest paternal progenitor in America settled 
in Rhode Island in 1750. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



J. EDWIN KOPF 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 


J. EDWIN KOPF 

J EDWIN KOPF, member of the firm of J. Edwin Kopf & Wooding, archi- 
• tects and engineers, was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 29, 1883, 
son of Jacob and Caroline (Shuler) Kopf. His early education was obtained 
in the public schools of the city of bis birth, after which he studied architec¬ 
ture for a number of years with the architectural firms of Elmer Grey; Perry 
& Clas and II. C. Echweiler, all of Milwaukee. 

In 1914, Mr. Kopf entered the Bureau of Public Buildings of the De¬ 
partment of the Interior, United States Insular Government, with headquar¬ 
ters at San Juan, Porto Rico, where he was placed in charge of the designing 
and construction of public buildings, government schools and institutions. In 
1909, upon the conclusion of his service at Porto Rico, he came to Indianapolis 
and here became associated with Mr. Herbert Foltz, with whom he remained 
for a period of approximately four years. He then associated himself with 
Mr. Kenneth Iv. Wooding in the formation of the firm with which he has 
since been identified. 

The architectural work of J. Edwin Kopf & Wooding has been com¬ 
posed chiefly of public and semi-public buildings, such as institutions, public 
and parochial schools, commercial display buildings, banks, group buildings 
and housing projects. Among the important commissions designed and di¬ 
rected by J. Edwin Kopf & AVoolling are the development of the new Indiana 
State Fair Grounds for the Indiana Board of Agriculture, consisting of the 
Manufacturers’ Building, Horse Show Building, Beef and Dairy Cattle Pa¬ 
vilions, Swine Pavilion and other buildings projected or in the course of con¬ 
struction; Charles Major School and Paul Cross Memorial Gymnasium at 
Shelbyville; Moral Township Consolidated school, Shelby County; Public 
School No. 67, Indianapolis; St. Catherine of Sienna Parochial School, Indi¬ 
anapolis; housing project for LaFayette Motors, Mars Ilill; Pitman-Moore 
Biological Farm Laboratories at Zionsville, Indiana; a group of commercial 
buildings at Indianapolis, Richmond, Ft. Wayne, and Terre Haute for the 
E. AY. Steinhart Companies of Indiana; the new Buick Building at Meridian 
and Thirteenth Streets, Indianapolis; First National Bank at Shelbyville, In¬ 
diana, and the Knights of Columbus Club Building at Indianapolis. 

Air. Kopf is a member of the Indianapolis Architects Association, Indiana 
Society of Architects, Indianapolis Athletic Club, and the American Legion. 

At the outbreak of the World War, Air. Kopf received a commission in the 
Construction Division, Air Service, United States Army being first stationed 
at AJitchell Field, Long Island, New York, then at Camp Sevier, South Caro¬ 
lina and then, for a period of twelve months, overseas as construction officer 

at various camps. 

The marriage of Air. Kopf to Aliss Louise Browning Dietrich took place 
in New York City, December 23, 1918. Air. and Airs. Kopf reside at the 
Spink Arms. 


353 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



FRANK E. KOTTEMAN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRANK E. KOTTEMAN 

RANK E. KOTTEMAN, partner of the William Kotteman 

Company, was born at Indianapolis, September 23, 1868, son 
of William and Charlotte (Topp) Kotteman. His early educa¬ 
tion was obtained in the public schools of the city of his birth, 
after which he became associated with liis father in the furniture 
and rug business. 

The William Kotteman Company was founded by the father 
of the subject of this sketch nearly fifty years ago and has since 
continuously engaged to this writing in the furniture and rug 
business, under the direction of members of the Kotteman family. 

Upon the death of Mr. William Kotteman, October 28, 1905, 
the business was succeeded by the sons, Frank E. and Charles J. 
Kotteman, as partners and sole owners. 

Mr. Kotteman is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, Highland Golf and Country Club and 
the Iviwanis Club. 

On June 3, 1908, Mr. Kotteman married Miss Clara F. Arens 
at Indianapolis. There is one daughter, Frances May, who resides 
with her parents at 3510 Fall Creek Boulevard. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



LEO KRAUSS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


LEO KRAUSS 

’ EO KRAUSS, jeweler and diamond merchant, son of Louis 

and Hannah Rebeccah (Fisher) Ivranss, was born at Buda¬ 
pest, Austria-Hungary, April 17, 1886. When but two years of 
age he was brought to the United States by his parents, first set¬ 
tling at Zanesville, Ohio, where he spent his early boyhood and 
obtained his education. 

When twelve years of age Air. Ivranss moved with his parents 
to New York City and there entered the establishment of J. J. 
Little & Company, printers and book binders. This continued for 
a period of one year, when he removed to Springfield, Ohio, to 
engage with his father in the jewelry business. In 1900 Mr. Ivranss 
came to Indianapolis to independently engage in business, first 
locating on West Washington Street and then, in 1901, to the 
present location at 13-45 North Illinois Street. 

In addition to his business interests, Mr. Ivranss has been 
actively identified with civic and charitable undertakings of In- 
dianapolis since first coming to the Iloosier Capital. During the 
World War he was in the Indiana Home Guards and otherwise 
engaged in promoting the efficiency of war work. He was asso¬ 
ciated with each Liberty Loan drive and an enthusiastic worker 
at the time of the War Chest drive, continuing in this last men¬ 
tioned association as a member of various teams which have in 
recent years worked upon Community Chest campaigns. 

Mr. Ivranss is a member of the Council of Boy Scouts of 
America, the Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Indianapolis Advertising Club, Indianapolis Club, Broadmoor 
Golf and Country Club, Iloosier Motor Club, of which he is at 
this time a director; the Jewish Federation and the Jewish Tem¬ 
ple. In the fraternal organization he is a member of the Benevo¬ 
lent Protective Order of Elks, No. 13, and Monument Lodge, No. 
657, F. & A. M. 

The marriage of Mr. Ivranss to Miss Rose Secttor occurred at 
Indianapolis June 12, 1900. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 



H. J. LACY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HOWARD J. LACY 

IT OWARD J. LACY, President and General Manager of the U. S. Cor- 
rwgated Fiber Box Company of this city, was born in New Castle, Penn¬ 
sylvania, May 23rd, 1875, at which place he attended school. At an early age 
he became deeply interested in the manufacture of steel and all vacation time, 
as well as any time out of school was spent about mills of his home locality. 
After leaving school, he was employed by one of the mills in the manufacture 
of sheet steel, during which time he made a careful and extensive study of this 
industry and became an expert in the manufacture of this product. 

After spending ten years in the mills, he severed his connection and oper¬ 
ated a general store in New Castle, but later returned to the steel business, and 
was connected with Norton Bros, of Chicago, experimenting on heavy Rolling 
Mill Machinery and Heating Furnaces. lie left this company to become Sales 
Manager for the American Can Company at Cincinnati, which position he held 
for about seven years, when he organized the U. S. Corrugated Fiber Box Co., 
which was incorporated in April, 1912. Through careful management and hard 
work this business has grown from operating on floor space of 6,000 square feet 
to two plants, the Home office and factory in Indianapolis, consisting of about 
230,000 square feet of floor space, and a branch factory at Warwood, (Wheel¬ 
ing) W. Va. with floor space of 94,000 square feet. Both plants are equipped 
with the most modern, up-to-date machinery and have a daily production of 
about 10 car loads of boxes. The usage of Corrugated shipping containers has 
greatly increased and has extended from a few lines using this style of ship¬ 
ping case until the present time when practically every industry has adopted 
its usage in some form. 

The U. S. Corrugated Fiber Box Company is rightly considered one of our 
leading manufacturing interests, and its progress and success is mainly due to 
the combination which is possessed by Mr. Lacy in being an executive of rare 
ability as well as a mechanical expert. 

He married Martha E. Williams of Sharon, Pa., January 16th, 1900, to 
whom were born two sons, Howard Jr. a student in Culver Military Academy 
and Harold, who attends Shortridge High School. 

Mr. Lacy is greatly interested in all civic affairs and is a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Highland Golf Club and 
Rotary Club; he is also a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of the Murat 
Shrine. In addition to his connection with the U. S. Corrugated Fiber Box 
Co., he is also associated with the Raglands Inc. Millinery Manufacturers as 
1st Vice President; and Jos. R. Peebles Sons Company, Wholesale and Retail 
Grocers of Cincinnati, as a member of their Board of Directors. 


359 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



HON. MOSES B. LAIRY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. MOSES B. LAIRY 

l—JON. MOSES B. LAIRY, member of the firm of Ralston, 
(fates, Lairy, A an Nuys ancl Barnard, attorneys, is a native 
Hoosier, having been born in Cass County, Indiana, August 13, 
!So9, son of Thomas and Eliza (Barnett) Lairy, the father being 
a farmer and native of Ohio. The early education of the subject 
of this sketch was obtained in the public schools of the county of 
his birth, after which for a time lie attended Valparaiso University. 
He then taught school for a period of ten years beginning in 1878. 
during the latter part of which time his vacations were spent read¬ 
ing law in the office of a firm of lawyers at Logansport, Indiana. 
In June, 1889, he graduated from the law department of the Uni¬ 
versity of Michigan with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, was 
admitted to the Indiana bar and immediately began the practice of 
his profession at Logansport. So rapidly did he advance in his 
chosen profession that in 1895 he was appointed by the late Gover¬ 
nor Claude Matthews to the Cass County Circuit Court Bench to 
fill the unexpired term of the late Hon. Judge D. B. McConnell 
and in this capacity served until he retired, November 3,1896. 


The succeeding fourteen years were spent in the active prac¬ 
tice of law at Logansport, although during part of that time he 
served as County Attorney of Cass County. In 1910 Judge Lairy 
was elected to the Indiana Appellate Court Bench for the Second 
District and of him it has since been said that during his tenure of 
office he devoted his time conscientious!v and diligentlv to the 
duties of the bench, giving to each case his best thought and un¬ 
biased judgment. In 1914 he was nominated and subsequently 
elected to the position of judge of the Supreme court of Indiana 
for the regular six-year term and this position he held until 1920 
when, upon the completion of his term of office, he practiced law 
for one year at Lafayette, Indiana, and then became associated in 
the firm of which he is now a member. 


Although Judge Lairy has been honored by positions of great 
responsibility, he has still found time to take an active interest 
in all movements tending to the betterment of the community at 
large, and in this connection it may be noted that he is a member 
of the Chamber of Commerce, Highland Golf and Country Club, 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Tipton Lodge, No. 
33, F. & A. M. 

The marriage of Judge Lairy to Miss Nina Justice occurred 
at Logansport, Indiana, March 23, 1918. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Moorefield 

FRANK H. LANGSENKAMP 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 


FRANK HERBERT LANGSENKAMP 

T HE only business of its particular type in Indianapolis and one of the 
leading concerns in its line in the country is operated at 130-142 East 
Georgia street under the name of F. II. Langsenkamp. Mr. Frank II. Langsen- 
kamp, one of the younger group of Indianapolis business leaders, is its owner 
and active head. 

This business which manufactures and sells machinery and other equipment 
for the canning and preserving industry was established away back in 1869 by 
the present owner’s father as a small eoppersmithing and brass finishing shop. 
In addition to doing all sorts of repair work, the founder began, very early, to 
make brass and copper kettles, and there are many of those old fashioned ket¬ 
tles with heavy iron bails, still to be found in the hamlets and on the farms of 
Central Indiana. 

It was this kettle manufacturing business, however, that led the business 
into its present day development. While there is still a very busy department 
devoted to repair work and the manufacture of brass and copper products for 
the trade, and another large department devoted to wholesaling brass and cop¬ 
per in sheets, rods and tubes, by far the larger part of the business of F. II. 
Langsenkamp is in manufacturing canning plant equipment. The line includes 
pulpers, finishers, cooking coils, kettles, sorting tables, and in fact, practically 
everything required by manufacturers of tomato products, preserves and simi¬ 
lar foods. 

The expansion of the business dates back to 1908 when Frank II. Langsen¬ 
kamp purchased the property and business. Having had practical experience 
in the business under his father’s supervision since he began to spend his vaca¬ 
tions in the factory at the age of fifteen, he started his own career with an inti¬ 
mate knowledge of manufacturing problems and a sound training in business 
management. The growth has been steady and conservative. Plenty of time 
has been taken for experiment before introducing improvements or new machin¬ 
ery to the trade. The basic idea back of each piece of Langsenkamp Canning 
Plant Equipment is that it shall do the work better, that it shall increase pro¬ 
duction, that it shall reduce overhead costs. As a result, Langsenkamp Equip¬ 
ment is a dominant line in the canning industry and is being used in the plants 
of the largest and best known manufacturers of food products. 

Mr. Frank Herbert Langsenkamp is the son of William and Helen (Hunt) 
Langsenkamp and was born in Indianapolis, May 21, 1879. His grade and high 
school education was received at St. Mary’s Parochial School in Indianapolis. 
He also attended St. Joseph’s College at Tuetopolis, Illinois. Mr. Langsenkamp 
is a Director of the National Canner’s Association, a member of the Indianapolis 
Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Board of Trade, and the Indianapolis 
Athletic Club. He is a Itotarian and a member of the Knights of Columbus. In 
politics he is a Republican on national issues but is independent so far as local 
affairs are concerned. 

Mr. Langsenkamp married Miss Estella Stroup of Shelbyville in that city 
February 10, 1903. They have one son, Frank Stroup Langenkamp, and live at 
3828 Washington Boulevard. 


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ROBERT V. LAW 

R OBERT V. LAW, son of Robert J. and Katie (Gansm) Law, was born 
February 25, 1879, at Toledo, Ohio. Early in life Mr. Law became at¬ 
tracted to the mechanical and electrical trades, and his first position, upon the 
termination of the Spanish-American War, in which lie served, was that of an 
apprentice electrician. Though only eighteen years of age, the man succeeded 
in being admitted as a member of the Regiment of Volunteers in an Ohio in¬ 
fantry organization. 

While engaged in electrical work Mr. Law realized the tremendous sales 
possibilities in mechanical enterprises, and although unable to begin work in 
his particular line, felt that he should obtain selling experience at once. Thus 
he ended electrical work and became associated with the Pillsbury-Washburn 
Flour Company at Minneapolis. 

In 1901 Mr. Law became a correspondent in the sales department of the 
International Motor Car Company, builders of steam cars, with headquarters 
at Toledo. Later this company became the Pope Motor Car Company, and at 
the time of the change in name the organization began manufacturing gasoline 
cars. The products of the Pope factories were among the earliest gasoline cars 
made. Mr. Law remained with the Pope Company until the latter part of 
1908. 

At this time he became identified with the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Com¬ 
pany at Buffalo, New York. For seven years Mr. Law was in the sales depart¬ 
ment of this great organization, beginning as a traveling salesman, and resign¬ 
ing from the position of assistant sales manager to go into business for himself. 

Coming to Indianapolis in 1915 as distributor of Hudson motor cars for 
the state of Indiana, Mr. Law has established a splendid reputation in his terri¬ 
tory. He has been especially interested in trade organization in Indianapolis. 
He was president of the Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association in 1920 
and at the present time is one of the directors of that organization. Ho is a 
vice-president of the National Automobile Dealers’ Association and treasurer 
of the Indiana Automotive Trade Association. 

As president and general manager of the R. V. Law Motor Company, 
Hudson and Essex distributors, Mr. Law has built up a splendid clientele 
through his personal interest in the distribution of his cars. It is extremely 
doubtful if any other man has a broader knowledge of general automobile selling 
conditions than Mr. Law. 

Mr. Law is a member of the Columbia Club, Iloosier Athletic Club, 
ICiwanis Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Old Timers Club (Automobile Industry), 
Iloosier Motor Club, of which he has been a director. His Masonic affiliations 
are Oriental Lodge, Scottish Rite, and Murat Temple. 

On October 26, 1904, Mr. Law married Miss Nella Templeton Leyman at 
Toledo. There are two children, Helen Leyman Law and Jane Templeton Law. 
The family lives at 2320 North Delaware Street. 


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B. F. LAWRENCE 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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BENJAMIN F. LAWRENCE 


DENJAMIN F. LAWRENCE, general manager of the Star 
Publishing Company, comprising the Indianapolis Star, 
Terre Haute Star and the Muncie Star, was born at Libertyville, 
Missouri, January 24, 1877, son of John S. and Georgiana (Mc- 
Clintock) Lawrence. When nine years of age he moved with his 
parents to the State of Oregon and in the public schools of Co- 
quille, Oregon, received his earlv education. 


Upon the completion of this work Mr. Lawrence conducted 
the Coquille Bulletin from 1894 to 1898 when he became associated 
with the Portland Oregonian and with which lie remained until 
1904, when he came to Indianapolis as managing editor of the In¬ 
dianapolis Star. 


During the years that have elapsed since Mr. Lawrence first 
entered the newspaper business he has occupied practically every 
position known to journalism. Tie has served in all branches of 
reportorial work and, in more recent years, lias been prominently 
identified with that side of newspaper publication having to do 
with business management. In November, 1911, he became busi¬ 
ness manager of the Star League of newspapers, which position 
he has continuously occupied to this time, although in February, 
1923, the title was changed to that of General Manager with direct 
supervision over the entire activities of the three newspapers 
above mentioned. 


In addition to newspaper work Mr. Lawrence has given much 
time and energy to civic affairs of Indianapolis. He is a member 
of the Chamber of Commerce, Columbia Club, Indianapolis Athle¬ 
tic Cluli, Marion Club, Athenaeum, Rotary Club, Highland Golf 
and Country Club, and the Advertising Club. In the Masonic 
fraternity he is a member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. 
M., Scottish Rite, Raper Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar, 
Shriner of the Murat Temple, and an Honorary member of A1 
Kader Temple of A. A. O. N. M. S., at Portland, Oregon. 

The marriage of Mr. Lawrence to Miss Mary Drane occurred 
at Coquille, Oregon, November 8, 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence 
reside at the Spink Arms Hotel. 


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HENRY W. LAWRENCE 


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HENRY W. LAWRENCE 

O NE of the principal functions of this publication is to accord recognition 
to those men who have materially aided in the advancement of Indian¬ 
apolis to the position of prominence which the city now enjoys and in this list 
must be included Mr. Henry AY. Lawrence, one of the most widely known and 
highly regarded hotel men of the United States. 

Nothing more clearly indicates the commercial, industrial and social status 
of a city than does the character of its leading hotels, and in this respect Indi¬ 
anapolis may well he proud of the Claypool Hotel, owned and operated by the 
Indiana Hotel Company, of which Air. Lawrence is the president. 

The subject of this sketch has been a resident of Indianapolis more than 
thirty years, during which time he has exemplified the highest civic loyalty 
and progressiveness and held the position of one of the most influential business 
men of the state. 

Born at Duane, St. Lawrence County, New York, on the 15th day of 
August, 1852, the son of James P. and Emily S. (Sails) Lawrence, Henry AY. 
Lawrence secured his early education in the public schools of Plattsburg, New 
York, after which he continued his studies in Ihe Plattsburg Academy, from 
which he graduated in 1874. He then became associated with his father in 
the hotel business and a few years later began his independent career as a 
hotel man. He first conducted a hotel at Moore’s Junction, New York, after 
which he engaged in the hotel business in Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado and 
Palatka, Florida. 

An interesting sidelight in connection with Air. Lawrence is the fact that 
his paternal grandfather, Hiram Lawrence, was the first male child born in the 
town of Lisbon, New York, and that this grandfather was tin brother of Cap¬ 
tain James Lawrence, the “Commander of the Chesapeake,” who gained im¬ 
mortal fame through his services as a member of the United States navy and 
whose dying command, “Don’t give up the ship!” shall be perpetuated fir all 
time in American history. 

In 1889 Air. Lawrence came to Indianapolis and leased the Spencer House, 
near the Union Passenger Station. Subsequently he purchased this property 
and made the Spencer House one of the leading commercial hotels of the Aliddle 
AVest. In 1897 Air. Lawrence became proprietor of the old Bates house, of 
which he retained control until it Avas razed to make room for the uresent mag¬ 
nificent Claypool. This hotel under the above management of Air. Lawrence 
has contributed much to the outstanding growth of Indianapolis. 

To the end that this review mav be complete in every detail, it should be 
added that Air. Laurence operated the English Hotel during the two years that 
the Claypool was in progress of construction. 

Air. Lawrence married Aliss Adelaide E. Cunningham on January 1, 1890. 
There was one son, James IT., who died at the age of eleven years. 

Air. Lawrence is a member of the Alasonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club. Columbia Club, Academy of Alusic and is a direc¬ 
tor of the Indiana Trust Company and the Alerchants National Bank. 


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DR. DANIEL W. LAYMAN 


Photograph by Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. DANIEL W. LAYMAN 

TNR. DANIEL AY. LAYMAN, specialist in the treatment of 
diseases of the ear, nose and throat, was born in Indianapolis, 
June 1, 3872, son of James T. and Cora Belle (Parks) Layman. 
His father was a well known citizen, being keenly interested in 
the political and civic affairs of the community and, as senior 
member of the wholesale hardware firm of Layman & Carey, was 
for many years an alert and progressive business man of Indi¬ 
anapolis. 


Dr. Layman attended the public schools of Indianapolis, 
after leaving Shortridge High School he entered Butler College, 
graduating from that institution in 1893, with the degree of 
Bachelor of Science. Following this course of study Dr. Layman 
entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia Uni¬ 
versity in New York, and graduated from that institution in 1898, 
wdtli the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then served as interne 
in St. Vincent’s Hospital of New York City, and Sloane Mater¬ 
nity Hospital, New York City. 


Upon the conclusion of his interne services at the New York 
Hospitals, Dr. Layman remained in New 7 York to engage in clini¬ 
cal work in the treatment of diseases of the ear, nose and throat 
for a period of approximately three years. During this time Dr. 

Lavman was identified with the New 7 York Eve and Ear Infirm- 
«. •/ 

ary, the Post Graduate and New 7 York Polyclinic Hospitals, 
affiliations regarded as invaluable by doctors of medicine devoted 
to the special treatment of the diseases to which Dr. Layman con¬ 
fines his practice. 


Dr. Layman is a member of the Indianapolis Medical Society, 
Indiana State Medical Society, American Medical Association, 
American Bronclioscopic Society, American Laryngological, Rhin- 
ological and Otological Society and is a Fellow in the American 
College of Surgeons. He is also a member of the University Club, 
Woodstock Club and Indianapolis Dramatic Club. He is a mem¬ 
ber of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of In¬ 
diana and of the Loyal Legion. 


Dr. Layman was married to Maude Carroll in Lynchburg, 
Virginia, June 5, 1905. There are two children, Daniel W., Jr., 
and Virginia Carroll. The familv residence is at 1236 North New 


Jersey Street. 


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WALLACE 0. LEE 


Photograph hy Brctzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


WALLACE 0. LEE 

YY7ALLACE 0. LEE, power sales manager of the Indianapolis 
W Light and Heat Company, and secretary-treasurer of the 
Hoosier Engineering Company, was born November 8, 1890. at 
Edgefield, South Carolina, son of Major Orison Perry and Posa 
Ada (Whittel) Lee. His parents moved to Indianapolis when 
Mr. Lee was a boy, and he was educated at the Robert IV. Sloan 
School and Sliortridge High School. 

While serving as a major in the Forty-fifth Infantry in the 
Philippine campaign, Mr. Lee’s father lost his life. Shortly after 
the death of his father, the subject of this sketch left Sliortridge 
High School to become associated with the Ryan Company. 

In 1908 Mr. Lee joined the sales department of the Indianap¬ 
olis Light and Heat Company, and during his fifteen years with 
that company has advanced rapidly to important department posi ¬ 
tions until now he heads the power sales department. During these 
years he has been instrumental in electrifying many Indianapolis 
industries. 

He has been intensely active in civic work and headed many 
of the membership campaigns of the Indianapolis Chamber of 
Commerce. Mr. Lee was chairman of the committee to obtain 
memberships for the new Indianapolis Athletic Club when the 
charter membership drive was conducted, also in the second round¬ 
up for members which culminated in bringing the membership to 
nearly 2,000 mark. He is director of both the Indianapolis 
Athletic Club and the Indianapolis Athenaeum, and is also a di¬ 
rector in the Circle Talking Machine Company. 

Mr. Lee is a member of the Scottish Rite, Mystic Shrine, 
Square and Compass Club, and Elks Club. He is vice-president 
of the Indiana Association of the Amateur Athletic Union, a com¬ 
missioner of the Indianapolis Council of Boy Scouts of America, 
a member of the American Club, the Y. M. C. A., the Marion Club, 
the Hoosier Motor Club, the Advertising Club of Indianapolis, 
the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the Jovian 
Fraternity, and is president of the Riverside Golf Club. 

On June II, 1911, Mr. Lee married Miss Fay Elizabeth 
Springer at Indianapolis. They have two daughters, Virginia 
Luana Lee and Mary Louise Lee, The family home is at 3926 
Graceland Avenue. 


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IRVING W. LEMAUX 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


IRVING W. LEMAUX 

I RVING AV. LEA!AFX, president and general manager of the Indianapolis 
Brush and Broom Manufacturing Company, was born January 25, 1886, at 
Ridgeville, Indiana, son of George and Nora C. (AVard) Lemaux. His education 
was obtained in the public schools of the city of his birth and at Indianapolis, 
to which city his parents removed in 1902. 

At the completion of his high school course in Indianapolis, the subject of 
this sketch became associated with his father in the Indianapolis Brush and 
Broom Manufacturing Company. Desiring to know the business of all depart¬ 
ments, his first work was in the factory, where he made brushes and brooms and 
other products manufactured by his father’s company. After a few years in 
the factory he became secretary and treasurer of the company. At the death of 
his father, in 1921, he was elected president. 

For many years Air. Lemaux has been decidedly active in the political and 
civic affairs of Indianapolis, and has served in many important positions relating 
to the growth and development of the great Hoosier captal. He was a member 
of the Board of Public AVorks for several months, succeeding his father, who had 
been appointed a member of the board in 1917 by former Alayor Charles AV. 
Jewett. Air. Lemaux’s father died while serving on the board during the fourth 
year of his term. 

In 1917 he was chosen treasurer of the Republican City Central Committee, 
and on January 15, 1922, he was elected City Chairman for four years. He led 
a special train of boosters for the late ATce-President Charles AVarren Fairbanks 
to the Chicago convention of the Republican party in 1916, at which time Air. 
Fairbanks was selected as one of the party’s standard bearers for that cam¬ 
paign. Air. Lemaux was vice-president of the Marion Club in 1913 and 1914, and 
was president of that club in 1916-1917. From 1915 to 1919 he was president of 
the Marion County Council, which has charge of the various expenditures for 
the county government. 

For five successive years, beginning in 1919, Air. Lemaux has been secre¬ 
tary of the Columbia Club of Indianapolis and is a member of the Indianapolis 
Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Board of Trade, the Indianapolis Ath¬ 
letic Club, the Highland Golf and Country Club, Alarion Club, Rotary Club, 
Indianapolis Traffic Club, Associated Employers of Indianapolis, Hoosier Alotor 
Club, Scottish Rite, Mystic Shrine, Oriental Lodge No. 500, F. and A. AL, and 
Elks Lodge No. 13. He is a director of the Security Trust Company. 

On December 26, 1922, Air. Lemaux was appointed a member of the Board 
of Managers of the Alarion County Tuberculosis Hospital at Sunnyside, an insti¬ 
tution in which he has been actively interested for a number of years. 

lie married Aliss Berenice Stiebel at Kansas City, Alissouri, on April 3, 
1907. They have th ree children: Irving AA 7 . Lemaux, Jr.. Frances P. Lemaux 
and Alarilla Lemaux. The family home is at 4550 Park Avenue. 


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Photograph hy Hoorefield 

RALPH A. LEMCKE 


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RALPH A. LEMCKE 

D ALPH A. LEMCKE, son of Julius A. and Emma (O’Reilly) 
* ^ Lemcke, was born February 5, 1880, in Evansville, Indiana, 
where he spent the first seven years of his life. In 1887 he came 
to Indianapolis with his parents, for his father at that time became 
treasurer of the State of Indiana. After attending the public 
schools in Indianapolis for four years, he went abroad, where he 
continued his schooling for four more years both in Germany and 
Switzerland. Returning to the United States, he entered St. 
John's Preparatory School and Lawrenceville, and later attended 
Princeton University. 

He is trustee and manager of the Lemcke estate. In 1911 he 
erected the Lemcke Annex Building, a fifteen-story structure in¬ 
tended for offices, now known as the Consolidated Building. From 
1911 to 1919 he was president of the R. A. Lemcke Realty Com¬ 
pany. He is active in the Chamber of Commerce and the Board 
of Trade, of which he was a member of the Governing Committee 
for seven years. He is a director of the Children’s Aid Association 
at the present time, and also a director of the Indianapolis Tele¬ 
phone Company. For four years, from 1917 to 1921, he was Chair¬ 
man of the Republican City Central Committee of Indianapolis. 
In 1918 he was elected treasurer of Marion County, the city of In¬ 
dianapolis, and the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners, 
and re-elected to these same offices in 1920, positions he is still 
holding. In addition, he was formerly a member of the Welfare 
Commission of the city of Indianapolis. 

Mr. Lemcke’s clubs include the University Club, the Columbia 
Club, the Woodstock Country Club, the Athenaeum, the Hoosier 
Athletic Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club (of which he is a 
director), the Dramatic Club, the Indianapolis Country Club 
(being formerly president of the last two mentioned), the Mystic 
Tie Lodge, and the Elks. Like many business men, he finds his 
chief recreation in golf. 

The marriage of Mr. Lemcke to Miss Cornelia Cunningham 
took place January 6, 1901, in Evansville, Indiana. There are 
three children—George A., Cornelia C., and Ralph A., Jr. 

The family resides at 1041 North Delaware Street. His 
business address is Lemcke Building. 


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EDWIN L. LENNOX 


Photograph by Bretzman 


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EDWIN L. LENNOX 

pDWIN L. LENNOX, owner of the E. L. Lennox Piano Com¬ 
pany, 237 North Pennsylvania Street, was born January 13, 
1859, at Hardin, Shelby County, Ohio, the son of Calvin P. and 
Ruth (Blue) Lennox. 

The early education of the subject of this sketch was obtained 
in the town of his birth and at a private school situated at the 
county seat—Sidney, Ohio. In 1876, Mr. Lennox came to Indi¬ 
anapolis, where he entered the old machine shop of A. N. Hadley. 
This he did for the purpose of learning the machine shop business, 
but after a period of one year, returned to Sidney, Ohio, and there 
again entered the private school at that place. 

During all of this time Mr. Lennox was energetically studying 
music, particularly the violin, and several years later again came 
to Indianapolis, where he entered the employ of the Atlas Engine 
Works. At, the same time he became affiliated with the English 
Opera House Orchestra as a clarinette player. In 1888 he left the 
Atlas Engine Works to devote all of his time to his musical work 
and then became identified with Professor Beissenhertz’s Orches¬ 
tra and Military Band. In 1889 he joined the When Store Band 
and also at that time went to work in the When Store, where lie 
remained until 1891, when he determined to initiate an independ¬ 
ent career in the piano business. 

In 1891 Mr. Lennox formed a partnership with Messrs. Frank 
and William Carlin, known as Carlin & Lennox. This partnership 
continued until 1911, when Mr. Lennox withdrew his interest and 
formed the E. I.. Lennox Piano Company. 

Mr. L ennox is a member of the Highland Golf and Country 
Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club. Country Club, Marion Club, and 
the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of 
the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Piano Manufactur¬ 
ers’ Association of the United States, the United States Manufac¬ 
turers’ and Merchants’ Golf Association, and the Ampico Arts 
Society of the United States. 

The marriage of Mr. Lennox to Miss Lois Ramsey occurred 
in the city of Irvington, October 15, 1881. Mrs. Lennox died June 
10,1908. There was one daughter, Helen, now Mrs. Clarence Coch¬ 
ran, who resides at Fort Lupton, Colorado. On February 22, 
1910 Mr. Lennox married Miss Lilian G. Habich at Indianapolis. 
The family home is at 2815 North Illinois Street. 


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C. P. LESH 












INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CHARLES PERRY LESH 


P ROMINENT among the men of Indianapolis who have personally built and 
maintained their own business for a number of years is Charles Perry 
Lesli, president of the C. P. Lesli Paper Company. 

Mr. Lesh is the son of Dr. Daniel Lesli and Charlotte (Perry) Lesli. Dr. 
Lesli Avas a native of Preble County, Ohio, to which place the Lesh family moved 
in 1806 from Berks County, Pennsylvania. For a number of \ T ears after his 
service Avitli the Ohio Volunteers, Dr. Lesh practiced medicine in New Paris, 
Richmond, and Indianapolis. Charlotte (Perry) Lesli, the mother, from But¬ 
ler County, Ohio, was a direct descendant of Ezra Perry, avIio came to Sand- 
Avieh, Massachusetts, in 1637. She also Avas a descendant of John IIoAvland, of 
Plymouth, Massachusetts. 

Charles Perry Lesh Avas born May 13, 1859, at Kankakee, Illinois, and 
came to Indianapolis in 1878 Avith his parents. He Avas with the Sentinel Print¬ 
ing Company for tAvo years, and salesman for Merrill, Hubbard & Company 
for seA r eral years. Leaving this company, he spent nine years with the Indiana 
Paper Company, and in 1892 became the Indianapolis agent for LeAvis Snyder’s 
Sons Paper Company, of Cincinnati. Four years later, in the month of May, 
Mr. Lesh organized the C. P. Lesh Paper Company, became its president and 
has held that position to the present time. 

When the company began, small quarters in West Market Street were 
sufficient to take care of the business. Later it Avas removed to South Meridian 
Street, and since that time they have erected a building at 121-125 Kentucky 
Avenue. 


Mr. Lesh married Miss Ora Wilkins, whose grandfather, John Wilkins, aa t hs 
one of the pioneers of Indianapolis, coming to the city in May, 1821. He AA*as 
one of the first trustees of DePauw University, Avhich position he held from 
1839 until he died in July, 1868. Miss Wilkins’ father, John A., Avas a first 
lieutenant and quartermaster of the 33rd Indiana Volunteers during the Civil 
War. chief clerk in the Quartermaster Department during the Spanish-Ameri¬ 
can War, a member of George II. Thomas Post, G. A. R., and a charter member 
of Roberts Park Church. 

Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Lesh have three children—tAvo daughters, Charlotte B. 
and Helen LaA’inia, Avho now is married to Dr. Leon G. Zerfas. and one son, 
Perry Wilkins, Avho is married to Miss Mary Hoke, daughter of Mr. Fred Hoke. 

Perrv Lesh Avas Avitli the 150th Field Artillery during the World War, 
serving eighteen months in the American Expeditionary Forces Avith the Rain- 
boAV D Vision in France. 

Charles Perry Lesh is identified Avith the Republican nartv. He is a 
Mason, affiliated with Mvstic Tie Lodge No. 398, F. and A. M., of Avhich he is 
Past Master; Keystone Chapter No. 6, R. A. M.; Raper Commandery No. 1; 
Knights Templar*, and Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. Mr. Lesh also is a mem¬ 
ber of the Meridian Street Church, of Avhich he has for years been a steAvard, 
and also a member of the MayfloAver Society. 

The Lesh home is at 3650 Central Ave. The business address is 121 Ken¬ 
tucky Ave. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



LOUIS H. LEVEY 


Photograph, by Bretzvian 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


LOUIS H. LEVEY 

| OUIS H. LEVEY was born in Madison, Indiana, where his 

father, William P. Levey, had been engaged in the business 
of binding, printing and book-selling since 1848. So he grew up 
in an atmosphere of printing and publishing and by the time lie 
attained his majority he and his elder brother became the princi¬ 
pals of the firm which assumed the familiar title of Levey Bros. 
& Company. 

With a vision of Indianapolis as a future national center of 
production and distribution, the young Levey brothers removed 
their business and equipment to this city in 1883. For a few 
years the firm occupied a location in South Meridian Street but 
in 1890 moved into a home of its own, erected for the purpose, at 
.15, 17 and 19 West Maryland Street. Ten years later, when it 
was necessary to enlarge the plant, the officers thought that 
ample allowance was being made for the future growth of the 
business, but in less than five years more the home of the com¬ 
pany again was outgrown. This led to the erection of the present 
plant, on the north side of Statehouse square, which the company 
has occupied since 1905. 

Mr. Levey was identified with the business of Levey Bros. & 
Company during forty years and was president of the company 
during the twenty-five years of its first great era of expansion. 
Although he retired from the active management in 1915, he still 
retains his business home in the offices of the institution which 
in 1919, was reincorporated as the Levey Printing Company and 
in 1923 is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary. 

Mr. Levey is a member of the board of trustees of the Indi¬ 
anapolis Foundation, a community trust for the benefit of the 
people of Indianapolis. He is a director of the Union Traction 
Company of Indiana, a member of the Indianapolis Board of 
Trade and a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. 
He is a Scottish Rite Mason and his social affiliations include 
memberships in the Country Club, Woodstock Club, University 
Club, Columbia Club and the Maennerclior. His residence is at 
2902 North Meridian street. 


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JAMES W. LILLY 


Photograph by Dexlieimer 


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JAMES W. LILLY 


J AMES W. LILLY, president of the Lilly Hardware 
Company, 114-118 East Washington Street, was 
born at Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. 
November 10, 1862, a direct descendant of one of the 
honored pioneer families of this commonwealth. He is a 
son of James W. Lilly, who was born at Geneva, New 
York, November 10, 1832, and Mary (Kerper) Lilly, 
who was born at Reading, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1835. 

The grandfather of the subject of this sketch, 
William Lilly, was born in England in 1789 but when 
five years of age was brought to this country by his 
father, Rev. William Lilly, who settled in Albany, New 
York. Later the family removed from Albany to 
Elizabeth, New Jersey, and then to Parryville, Pennsvl- 
ania. 

The early education of James W. Lilly, whose name 
initiates this article, was obtained in the public schools 
of Indianapolis, after which he attended Butler Col¬ 
lege for one year. Upon leaving this institution he ob¬ 
tained a clerical position in the Indianapolis office of 
the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad, with which 
company he continued to be identified for approximately 
six years, when he resigned to enter an independent 
business career. 

In 1885 he became associated with Mr. Frank Stal- 
naker, elsewhere mentioned in this volume, with whom 
he purchased the retail hardware business of Yajen 
& New and which then became known as Lilly & Stal- 
naker. The business, which is devoted to wholesale and 
retail hardware, builders’ supplies, stoves, ranges and 
such other materials as are usually to be found in 
hardware establishments and, which in 1917 became the 
Lilly Hardware Company, has been continuously con¬ 
ducted at the present location, although the quarters 
have necessarily been expanded from time to time to 
meet the demands of an ever increasing volume of 
trade. 

Mr. Lilly, who is known as an energetic and pro¬ 
gressive business man of more than usual ability, is 
also appreciated by the citizens of Indianapolis as 
one of the most public spirited residents of the city. 
Though never an aspirant for political office of any 
order, his many civic activities, prompted solely by a 
desire to serve the community, have placed him in a 
position of high estimation and confidence in the minds 
of all of those persons with whom he has been associated 
from time to time. 

In 1917, together with other prominent citizens of 
Indianapolis, Mr. Lilly was largely instrumental in 
the oversubscription to the Red Cross quota of that 
year and since that time has been continuously iden¬ 
tified with and actively engaged in \arious campaigns 


for the support of many charitable and civic institu¬ 
tions, chief among which is to be mentioned his work 
in connection with the original War Chest of Indianap¬ 
olis for which approximately three million dollars was 
subscribed. For a number of years, Mr. Lilly was 
Chairman of the Charities and Corrections Committee of 
the Chamber of Commerce and from 1911 to 1913 inclu¬ 
sive and from 1918 to 1920 inclusive was a member of 
the Board of Directors of that organization. Since its 
establishment in 1916, he has been a member of the 
executive committee of the Indianapolis Chapter of the 
American Red Cross, which in 1917 he also served as 
Chairman of the Finance Committee and is now a di¬ 
rector of the Community Chest, which succeeded the 
War Chest and of which he was a member of the 
original board of directors. 

Mr. Lilly is a director of the Indiana National Bank, 
a director of the Farmers Trust Company and on the 
board of directors of the T. H. I. & E. Railroad Com¬ 
pany. For the past twelve years he has been an active 
member of the board of trustees of the Southeastern 
Hospital for the Insane, located at North Madison, Indi¬ 
ana, and is at this time president of that board. It is 
well known that much of the development and pro¬ 
gress accomplished by the Southeastern Hospital during 
leeent years is very largely due to the untiring efforts 
of Mr. Lilly in its behalf. 

In addition to this work Mr. Lilly has given much 
time to the development of the Sunnyside Sanitorium. 
From its beginning until his recent resignation, due to 
his inability to devote the necessary time, he was on 
the board of trustees of that organization. 

Mr. Lilly is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, 
Highland Golf and Country Club, Art Association of 
Indianapolis, Contemporary Club, Country Club and 
Woodstock Club. In the Masonic fraternity he has 
completed the circle of each York and Scottish Rite, 
having in the former his maximum affiliation with 
Raper Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar, and hav¬ 
ing attained to the 33rd degree in the Ancient Accept¬ 
ed Scottish Rite, in which his affiliation is with Indi¬ 
anapolis Sovereign Consistory, Sublime Princess of the 
Royal Secret. In 1907-8-9 he served as thrice potent 
master of Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection, of the 
Scottish Rite, and from May 1, 1919 to May 1, 1922 
was Commander-in-Chief of the Indiana Consistory. He 
is also a member of the Murat Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine. 

The marriage of Mr. Lilly to Miss Blanche Dol- 
lens occurred on October 15, 1889. There are two 
daughters, Mrs. John H. Darlington, (Julia M.), and 
Mrs. Paul E. Fisher (Mary J.). The family resi¬ 
dence is at 1715 North Meridian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 



DR. GOETHE LINK 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. GOETHE LINK 

TNR. GOETHE LINK, surgeon, was born in Warrick County, 
Indiana, May 20, 1879, son of William H. and Plioebe E. 
(Stone) Link. His early education was obtained in the public 
schools of Petersburg, Indiana, upon the completion of which he 
attended Wabash College and Indiana University. 

Following this academic training, Dr. Link entered the Cen¬ 
tral College of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis and from 
this institution graduated in 1902, with the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine. During 1902-1903 Dr. Link was resident physician at 
the Indianapolis City Hospital, after which he pursued a number 
of post-graduate courses at Boston, Philadelphia and New York. 

Since 1910 Dr. Link has exclusively devoted his professional 
career to the practice of surgery, in which field he has gained an 
enviable reputation in this city and state. He has been on the staff 
of the City Hospital since 1909 and for a number of years has been 
a member of the faculty of the Indiana University School of 
Medicine and is one of those composing the medical advisory board 
of the Methodist Hospital of this city. Since January 1, 1922, he 
has also been upon the Indianapolis Board of Health. Dr. Link 
has given much time to the study of his profession and is the 
author of a number of treatises on surgical subjects. 

Dr. Link is a member of the city, state and American Medi¬ 
cal Associations and of the Phi Bho Sigma medical fraternity. 
He is also a member of the Highland Golf and Country Club, the 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Hoosier Athletic Club, the Phi 
Kappa Psi college fraternity, and in the Masonic order is a mem¬ 
ber of Pentalpha Lodge, No. 564, F. & A. M. 

The marriage of Dr. Link to Miss Clara Leonard occurred at 
Indianapolis, June 3, 1911. There are two children, Lucy Jane 
and William H. The family residence is at 4936 North Meridian 
Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



FRANK L. LITTLETON 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRANK LESLIE LITTLETON 

JpRAXK LESLIE LITTLETON, general attorney for the C. C. 

0. & St. L. Ry. Co. for Indiana, was born near McCordsville, 
Hancock County, Indiana, January 12, 1868, son of Aaron S. and 
Mary E. (McCord) Littleton. The family is of English and 
Scotch origin, the parents coining to Indiana from Ohio in the 
early forties. The elementary education of the subject of this 
sketch was obtained in the public schools of the county of his 
birth, after which he entered HePauw University at Greencastle. 
Indiana, from which he graduated in 1891 with the degree of Bach¬ 
elor of Philosophy and from which, in 1893 he received the degree 
of Bachelor of Laws and, in 1894, the degree of Master of Arts. 

Shortly after his graduation from college, in 1891, Mr. Little¬ 
ton entered the law office of Byron K. Elliott of Indianapolis, 
with whom he was more or less closely associated in the practice 
of law until 1905, when he became general attorney for The Cleve¬ 
land, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company with of¬ 
fices at Cincinnati. In December 1920, Mr. Littleton became 
attorney for Indiana for the same company with offices in Indian¬ 
apolis, and this position he has continuously held to this time. 

In addition to the general practice of law Mr. Littleton has 
in the past taken an active part in Republican politics. He was, 
in 1896, elected to the Indiana General Assembly from Indian¬ 
apolis and, as a member of the House of Representatives, made 
such an able record that he was reelected and made speaker in 
1898-9. While a member of the House of Representatives Mr. 
Littleton took a leading part in the preparation of the Apportion¬ 
ment Bill of 1897. 

Mr. Littleton is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State 
and American Bar Associations, the Columbia Club, Marion Club, 
Indianapolis Country Club, Cincinnati Business Men’s Club, Phi 
Beta Kappa honorary fraternity and the Phi Kappa Psi college 
fraternity. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



FRANK C. LORY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRANK C. LORY 

pRANK C. LORY, president and general manager of the Zero 

Ice and Fuel Company, was born May 8, 1873, at Petersburg, 
Indiana, son of Joseph and Kate (Tieg) Lory. He attended the 
public schools of Petersburg and a business college in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

Mr. I jorv became interested in Alaska while yet a young man, 
and in 1896 penetrated the wilderness of that country before the 
famous Klondike gold rush. While in Alaska he engaged in vari¬ 
ous lines of business, including contractor, mine owner, hotel pro¬ 
prietor, and in staking mining claims. He was unusually success¬ 
ful in his mine ventures. 

Returning to Indianapolis in 1902, Mr. Lory became half 
owner of the .Model Shirt Factory, which at that time occupied a 
part of the Century Building. He and his partner, Harry Mur¬ 
phy, sold the business in 1906. Mr. Lory then went to California 
and remained on the coast two years. 

On coming back to Indianapolis in 1908, he became associated 
with the Zero Ice and Fuel Company, which at that time was in 
the hands of receivers. His efficient management resulted in 
unusual success for the company, and the concern has been placed 
on a substantial business basis. 

Mr. Lory married Miss Louise Harris, of Washington, In¬ 
diana, on March 16, 1901. There is one son, Maxwell, associated 
with Mr. Lory in liis business. The home is at 2856 North Illinois 
Street. 

He is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, 
the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Hoosier 
Athletic Club, and the Masonic organizations. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JEROME LYON 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JEROME LYON 

JEROME LYON, vice-president of L. Strauss & Company, one 
of the foremost fine men’s shops in America, was born in the 
city of the Nation’s capital, Washington, I). C., June 25, 1881, son 
of Jacob and Mathilda (Michael) Lyon. His early education was 
obtained in the schools of the city of his birth, after which, when 
but a young man he became associated with a Washington news¬ 
paper, The Evening Star. A few years later lie came to Indianap¬ 
olis and here entered the employe of R. Kirchbaum & Son and 
with that organization remained until early in 1912, when he be¬ 
came vice-president of the AY. J. Fisliel Company, which later, in 
1912, was purchased by L. Strauss & Company. 

Since his first association with the predecessors of L. Strauss 
& Company, Mr. Lyon has devoted himself to the upbuilding of 
that organization. He has occupied various positions in the or¬ 
ganization, in each of which he proved himself equal to additional 
responsibilities as is evidenced by the fact that he is now the com¬ 
pany’s vice-president and general manager. In this connection it 
is also pertinent to here note that Mr. Lyon is a member of the 
Board of Directors of Crof'ut & Knapp, makers of the celebrated 
Dobbs hats and others and one of the largest hat manufacturers of 
{lie world. 

Although ever faithful to his business interests, Mr. Lyon 
finds time to devote much energy and enthusiastic support to 
civic and charitable affairs of Indianapolis. During the World 
War he was actively identified with the various Liberty Loan 
drives and since that time has been connected with Community 
Chest work and other philanthropic undertakings. 

He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Columbia Club, 
Marion Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Indianapolis Club, 
Athenaeum, Broadmoor Country Club, and Kiwanis Club. In ad¬ 
dition to these he is an Elk and Jovian. 

The marriage of Air. Lyon to Miss Mirriam Block, daughter 
of Air. and Airs. A. L. Block, took place at Indianapolis, June II, 
1912. There is one daughter, Alma. The Lyon family residence 
is at 4160 Washington Boulevard. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



GEORGE L. MAAS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GEORGE L. MAAS 

EORGE L. MAAS, president of the MaasAeimeyer Lumber 

Company, Twenty-first Street and the Monon Railroad, was 
horn at Indianapolis, Indiana, July 19, 1866, son of Louis and 
Fredericka (AYuest) Maas. His early education was received in 
the public schools of this city, after which, when seventeen years 
old, he went to work as a grocery boy for the Mueller Grocery 
Store at Seventeenth and Bellfontaine Streets. 

Immediately following the conclusion of this work, Mr. Maas 
became associated with A. B. Meyer & Company in charge of a 
coal yard at Christian Avenue and the Lake Erie & Western Rail¬ 
road. Later, another transfer in employment made him a book¬ 
keeper in the Bee Hive Planing Mill, operated by the firm of 
M. S. Huey & Son and there it was that Mr. Maas laid the founda¬ 
tion for the success which he has since attained as a lumber man. 

For fourteen years Mr. Maas was associated with Huey & 
Son but at the end of that period utilized the experience and capi¬ 
tal and credit that he had obtained and organized the Maas-Nei- 
meyer Lumber Company of which he has been continuously the 
president. Three years after the company was organized a plan¬ 
ing mill was established, while other facilities of the plant have 
been constantly increased from time to time. The company manu¬ 
factures everything that enters into the construction of office 
buildings, factories and homes in the form of wood. Many of the 
finest structures in Indianapolis were built from materials sup¬ 
plied by the Maas-Neimeyer plant, the raw materials having been 
brought from Southern and far AYestern points to Indianapolis 
for final finishing here. The business has grown and developed 
in step with the expansion of this city, although the fact that the 
mahogany finishings for the Courthouse recently completed at 
Memphis, Tennessee, are the product of this Indianapolis concern, 
clearly indicates that the Maas-Neimeyer Lumber Company is by 
no means a purely local organization. 

Mr. Maas is an active Republican, a member of the Pentalpha 
Lodge, F. & A. M., a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner 
of the Murat Temple. He is also a member of the Knights of 
Pythias. 

The marriage of Air. Maas to Aliss Bertha Aletzger, daughter 
of Alexander Aletzger, who was for a number of years a prominent 
real estate dealer of Indianapolis, occurred in this city, \ovember 
28, 1893. There is one son, Hugo G. Alaas, now associated with 
his father in business, and a daughter, Aliss AVilhelmina. The 
son, who is a graduate of the University of Alicliigan, served dur¬ 
ing the World AYar as lieutenant at the Edgewood Arsenal at 
Baltimore, Maryland. The family residence is at 2315 Broadway. 


395 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



DR. J. A. MacDONALD 


Photograph by Moorefield 


396 



INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. JOHN A. MacDONALD 

FAR. JOHN A. MacDONALI), internist, was born at Wooster, 

Ohio, May 8, 1877, the son of Rev. Humphrey A. and Elanore 
(Miller) MacDonald. His early education was obtained at Union 
City, Indiana, after which for two years he attended Miami Uni¬ 
versity at Oxford, Ohio. 

Immediately following this work Dr. MacDonald entered 
Rush Medical College at Chicago and from this institution grad¬ 
uated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1901. He was then 
for a period of two years resident physician at the Presbyterian 
Hospital, Chicago, and then for a period of four years upon the 
medical staff of the Central Hospital for the Insane at Indianap¬ 
olis, Indiana. 

Tn 1907 Dr. MacDonald began the general practice of medicine 
in Indianapolis and in this continued until 1918, when he limited 
his work to internal medicine in hospital practice and consultation 
and in which he has since gained an enviable reputation, not only 
among the residents of this city, but also among medical confreres 
through the State. 

Dr. MacDonald is at this time an Associate Professor of 
Medicine at the Indiana University Medical School, on the con¬ 
sulting staff of the City Hospital of Indianapolis and upon the 
staff of St. Vincent Hospital. 

He is a member of the Indianapolis Medical Society, Indiana 
State Medical Society, American Medical Association and the 
Mississippi Valley Medical Society. He is also a member of the 
University Club, Woodstock Club, Dramatic Club, Players Club, 
and Pentalpha Lodge, P. & A. M., and of Paper Commandery, No. 
1, Knights Templar. 

Shortly after the out-break of the World War, Dr. MacDon¬ 
ald enlisted in the United States Army Medical Reserve Corp at 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, receiving the rank of Captain. In 
July, 1918, he was ordered to training camp at Camp Jackson, Co¬ 
lumbia, South Carolina, from which he was later transferred to 
General Hospital No. 35 at West Baden, Indiana, as Chief of the 
Medical Service. In this capacity he remained until May, 1919, 
when he was honorably discharged from army service. 

The marriage of Dr. MacDonald to Miss Julia Loring Haines 
occurred at Indianapolis, October 24, 1916. Dr. and Mrs. Mac¬ 
Donald reside at 3227 North Pennsylvania Street. 


397 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



R. A. MacGILL 


Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 


398 








INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ROBERT A. MacGILL 

J^OBERT AYRES MacGILL, manager of the Indianapolis 

branch of the Crane Company, was born at Chicago, Illinois, 
September 15, 1877, the son of Alexander D. and Emily (Ayres) 
MacGill. His education was obtained in the public schools of 
Chicago. 

Mr. MacGill lias been associated with the Crane Company 
for twenty-six years. He was with the company in Chicago for 
thirteen years and then spent three years in Terre Haute as branch 
manager, coming to Indianapolis in 1912 in the same capacity. 
The Crane Company, which specializes in plumbers’ supplies and 
heating material, is situated at 333 West Market Street. 

The raising of pure-bred cattle forms Mr. MacGill’s most ab¬ 
sorbing hobby, and soon after he came to Indianapolis he started 
raising pure-bred Jerseys on his farm at Danville, Indiana. He 
has a herd of seventy-five, including the grand champion bull at 
the Indiana State Fair in the years 1920 and 1921. 

Mr. MacGill is a member of the Columbia Club, the Rotary 
Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Highland Golf and 
Country Club, and the Marion Club. 

On August 8, 1919, Mr. MacGill married Miss Pearl Sebel 
at Cincinnati. There is a son, Robert A. MacGill, Jr. 


399 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



ROBERT MacGREGOR 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ROBERT MacGREGOR 

D OBERT Mac 'GREGOR, of the Robert MacGregor Company, 
^ realtors, was born in the city of Indianapolis, June 11, 1891, 
son of Rev. D. R. and Dama (Davis) MacGregor. His early edu¬ 
cation was obtained in the grade and high schools of Marion, In¬ 
diana, after which he attended Wabash College at Crawfordsville, 
Indiana, from which he graduated in 1916 with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts. During the four years that he was in attend¬ 
ance at Wabash College, Mr. MacGregor was private secretary to 
Dr. G. L. Mackintosh, president of the college. 

Immediately upon the completion of his college career, Mr. 
MacGregor accepted a position with the S. F. Bowser Company at 
Fort Wayne, Indiana, and with that organization remained for a 
period of a little over one year, when he went to Chicago to become 
private secretary to a firm of lawyers. While in that capacity he 
read law and attended night school at the Kent College of Law 
with the intention of presenting himself to the State Board of 
Bar Examiners for admission to the Illinois Bar. 

With the outbreak of the World War, however, Mr. Mac¬ 
Gregor severed his connection with the Chicago law firm and 
immediately enlisted in the United States Navy as a Second Class 
Seaman. He attended the Officers Training School, Municipal 
Pier, Chicago, and at Pelham Bay. New York, where he was com¬ 
missioned an Ensign. He became attached to the U. S. S. Quincy 
and served overseas as Watch Officer and later as Assistant Navi¬ 
gating Officer. Immediately prior to the conclusion of the World 
War, he took an examination for and received a mates’ license in 
the Merchants Service, a license which he still retains and which, 
it is of interest to here note, permits the holder to navigate a ship 
of any tonnage on any of the navigable waters of the World. 

LTpon the conclusion of the World War, Mr. MacGregor re¬ 
turned to Chicago and there entered the University of Chicago 
Law School, having obtained a Noyes scholarship, but shortly 
thereafter became interested in the possibilities of the real estate 
business and determined to devote all of his time to this work and 
so concluded his college career. Until 1920 he was engaged in the 
real estate business in Chicago when he came to Indianapolis and 
here became associated with Emerson AY. Chaille & Company. 
AYith that organization he remained until December 31, 1922, when 
he formed the Robert MacGregor Company, dealing in the sale 
and lease of business and residential properties. 

Air. MacGregor is a member of the Indianapolis Real Estate 
Board, of which he is secretary at this time, Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, Indianapolis Advertising Club, the Marion Club, the Kap¬ 
pa Sigma college fraternity, the First Baptist Church and of 
Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398, F. & A. M. 


401 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JOHN J. MADDEN 


Photograph by Moorefield 


402 




INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN J. MADDEN 

T OHN J. MADDEN, manufacturer of Davenport Beds and Dav- 
** enette Suites, sole owner of the John J. Madden Manufacturing 
Company, Sixteenth Street and Sherman Drive, was born at In¬ 
dianapolis, October 8tli, 1869, son of Captain Thomas and Ellen 
Madden. 

Upon completing his schooling he became associated with his 
father in Thomas Madden Son & Company, which business was 
established in 1882. With that company he remained as junior 
partner until 1913, when he founded the John J. Madden Manu¬ 
facturing Company. 

The business has been very successful and their product is 
offered in every State in the Union. Mr. Madden is considered 
one of the leading manufacturers in this line. The company 
employs over two hundred men. 

Mr. Madden lias always taken an active part in all organiza¬ 
tions pertaining to his business and was chosen on the Governing 
Board of the new Furniture Mart Building at Chicago, which is 
considered one of the largest and most magnificent buildings in 
the world adapted for exhibiting and selling furniture. 

He is vice-president of the Indianapolis Rotary Club, and a 
member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the United 
States Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Traffic Club, the 
Indianapolis Association of Credit Men, the Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, the Hoosier Motor Club and the Knights of Columbus. He 
is also an enthusiastic member of the Highland Golf and Country 
Club. 

Mr. Madden married Miss Josephine Owings at Indianapolis, 
June 17tli, 1893. They have five children; Mrs. Doherty M. Slieer- 
in, John J. Madden, Jr., Richard E. Madden, Thomas Madden and 
Josephine Mary Madden. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



HARRY B. MAHAN 


Photograph by Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HARRY B. MAHAN 

A MONG the many men of Indianapolis who have been consist¬ 
ently active in the development of the city, who have not made 
especial effort to seek public position, is Harry B. Mahan, presi¬ 
dent and general manager of the Harry B. Mahan Company, 
makers of paper boxes. 

The subject of this sketch is a native Hoosier, having been 
born at Indianapolis, August 3, 1867, the son of William H. and 
Louisa (Brockman) Mahan. 

After completing his education in the public schools of this 
city, he became associated with Mr. William H. Boll and remained 
with him from 1882 to 1892 in the retail carpet and drapery 
business. 

At about this time, however, Mr. Mahan began to appreciate 
the possibilities of paper box manufacture and so in 1893 formed 
the Harry B. Mahan Company for the purpose of making set-up 
paper boxes, such as candy boxes, textile boxes, hat boxes, novelty 
boxes, and a host of others. 

From a small beginning at the rear of a third floor of an old 
building on Washington Street, this company has grown to occupy 
the entire four-story building now occupied at 320 West South 
Street. This building was purchased in i900 and is a monument 
to the efforts of the originator of the company. 

At the time of the Spanish-American War, Mr. Mahan served 
as a First Lieutenant in Company H of the 158th Indiana Infan¬ 
try. During the recent war, Mr. Mahan served nearly two years 
as a Captain of Aviation, serving at Kelly Field, San Antonio, 
Texas; Camp Hancock, Augusta, Georgia; and the Speedway 
Repair Station, Indianapolis. 

As an indication of Mr. Mahan’s interest in civic affairs, it is 
of interest to note that he is a member of the Chamber of Com¬ 
merce; Knights of Pythias Lodge, No. 56; Mystic Tie Lodge, F. & 
A. M.; Raper Commandery No. 1; Keystone Chapter, No. 6; Scot¬ 
tish Rite; Murat Temple Mystic Shrine; Military Order of 
Foreign Wars; Indianapolis Post No. 4 of the American Legion, 
and the Kiwanis Club. 

Mr. Mahan is a member of the board of directors of several 
manufacturing corporations of the city, and is frequently called 
upon to lend counsel and advice in the administration of the 
affairs of these concerns. 

On July 28, 3898, Mr. Mahan married Miss Anna M. Henn at 
Indianapolis. They have one son, Harry B. Mahan, Jr. The 
family resides at 434 North Arsenal Avenue. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 

FRANK P. MANLY 


406 








INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRANK P. MANLY 

J7 RANK P. MANLY, founder and president of the Indianapolis 

Life Insurance Company, was born at Rusliford, Minnesota, 
May 28,1865, son of Anthony and Catherine (Mulcay) Manly. He 
was educated in the Rusliford public schools and at Valparaiso 
University, from which he graduated in 1889. He then studied 
law at Northwestern University, after which for a number of 
vears he was engaged in the life insurance business at Chicago. 

In 1902 Mr. Manly came to Indianapolis as State manager for 
the Prudential Insurance Company. In 1905 he organized the 
Indianapolis Life Insurance Company, of which he is the presi¬ 
dent. 

Mr. Manly is regarded as one of the outstanding life insur¬ 
ance men of the country at this time, enjoying a national reputa¬ 
tion as a careful and conservative builder and as a recognized 
authority upon the subject of life insurance. Since completing his 
college life he has devoted all of his business energy to life insur¬ 
ance and through the operation of his sound business policies has 
brought the Indianapolis Life Insurance Company to an enviable 
position among life insurance companies of the United States. 

As an active citizen of the community Mr. Manly assisted in 
organizing the first Rotary Club in the state of Indiana. He was 
president of the Indianapolis Rotary Club in 1915 and in 1916 
w 7 as district governor of the Illinois-Indiana Rotary District. He 
is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indianap¬ 
olis Athletic Club, Woodstock Club and of the Masonic bodies. 

Mr. Manly was married to Miss Elena McNellis, of Lexington, 
Kentucky. There is one daughter, Mrs. Jack Gould, nee Filomena 
Manly. The family home is on Westfield Road, near Seventy- 
fifth Street. 


407 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



HENRY A. MANSFIELD 


Photograph by Bretsman 


408 








INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HENRY A. MANSFIELD 

TTENRY A. MANSFIELD, son of Martin H. and Anna (Saiger) 
^ ^ Mansfield, was born at Ashland, Ohio, on November 16, 1868. 
The father was a man of outstanding mechanical ability and, as 
the inventor of a clover lmller, engaged in the manufacture of 

o o 

clover millers at Ashland, Ohio, for many years prior to his death, 
which occurred in 1879. The mother survived a number of years, 
and of the eleven children six are now living. 

Henry A., of this review, obtained his early education in the 
public schools of his native town, after which he secured employ¬ 
ment in the engineering department of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
at Richmond, Indiana. In 1886 he was transferred by the com¬ 
pany to Indianapolis, where he has since maintained his home. 

In November, 1890, Mr. Mansfield severed his connection 
with the Pennsylvania Railroad, having been elected to the re¬ 
sponsible office of city engineer of Indianapolis, and, though but 
twenty-two years of age at the time and the youngest man ever 
chosen to this position in the Indiana capital, filled the office effi¬ 
ciently and capably during the four years administration of Mayor 
Thomas L. Sullivan. 

The present sewerage of Indianapolis was, under the direc¬ 
tion of Mr. Rudolph Hering, consulting engineer of New York 
Citv, laid out and devised by Mr. Mansfield, and it is of interest 
to know that the general engineering plans of the city are still 
those which were formulated by him. 

Upon the completion of his term of office as city engineer, 
Mr. Mansfield engaged in the engineering and contracting busi¬ 
ness along general engineering lines, and in this enterprise he has 
been identified with much of the large contract work in Indianap¬ 
olis. In 1899 Mr. Mansfield became associated with D. Y. Moore, 
at which time the Mansfield Engineering Company was organized. 
In 1909, however, the Moore interests were withdrawn, since which 
time Mr. Mansfield has operated as an individual under the same 
name. He is also Secretary-Treasurer of the Cumberland Hydro- 
Electric Power Company, a Kentucky corporation now developing 
the largest Hydro-Electric Power project in the Middle West. 

In 1891 Mr. Mansfield married Miss Ada F. Freeland of 
Spencer, Indiana. They have one child, Freeland. The residence 
is at the Spink Arms Hotel. 

Mr. Mansfield is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, 
Columbia Club, Hoosier Motor Club, Kiwanis Club, Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, a Scottish Rite 
Mason, and a Shriner of the Murat Temple. 


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WALTER C. MARMON 


Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 


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WALTER C. MARMON 



ALTER C. MARMON, who has been president of Nor dyke 


W & Marmon Company since the death of his father, Daniel 
AY. Marmon in May, 1909, was born in Richmond, Indiana, 
August 25, 1872. The family moved to Indianapolis in 1876. 

Following his early education in Indianapolis schools he en¬ 
tered Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana and later pursued 
his studies at the Massachusetts School of Technology, at Boston, 
from which he graduated. Most of his time during summer vaca¬ 
tion was spent in the factory obtaining practical experience in the 
various manufacturing departments. For a time after graduat¬ 
ing he gained experience in millwright work and the actual opera¬ 
tion of mills at various points in the country where mills were 
erected by the company—thus rounding out his training in flour 
mill engineering. 

In 1897 he came into the office of the company to share in tire 
business management of its affairs and was made its secretary. 
Following his election to the office of president of the company 
he has guided the business during the period of its greatest de¬ 
velopment. This period includes the entry of the company in 1901 
into the field of motor car manufacturing in which line of en¬ 
deavor it has built up a large business and a reputation for high 
quality product in keeping with its renown in the flour mill build¬ 
ing business which has prospered now for over seventy-two years. 

This period of expansion under the guidance of Mr. Marmon 
also includes war time activities in the manufacture, for our Gov¬ 
ernment, of Hall-Scott Air Plane Motors and Liberty Alotors— 
Nordyke & Marmon Company having been the first company 
called upon by our government to build such motors. 

Mr. Marmon married Annie B. Hall at Philadelphia, March 
29, 1898. There are three children. Franklin Hall Marmon, Miss 
Elizabeth C. Marmon and Miss Dorothy B. Marmon. 

Mr. Marmon is secretary of the Indianapolis Light and Heat 
Company, is a member of the Board of Managers of Crown Hill 
Cemetery, is identified with Boy Scout activities and a member 
of the Second Presbyterian Church. 

He is a member of The Columbia Club, Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, Indianapolis Country 
Club, Woodstock Country Club and Board of Trade. 


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OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph hy Moorefield 

GEORGE J. MAROTT 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GEORGE J. MAROTT 


G EORGE J. MAROTT, son of George P. and Anna 
(Webb) Marott, was born December 10, 1858, at 
Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, a small 
town located on the London road and prominent as a 
stage coach station in olden days. 

George J. of this sketch attended English schools 
until fourteen years of age, when he started to work in 
the small shoe factory owned by his father. In 1875 
Mr. Marott’s father, George P. Marrott, left England 
to locate in America, and in a few months Mr. George 
J., his sister, Katherine, and brother, Joseph, also came 
to this country. The mother and two sisters, Elizabeth 
and Ellen, remained in England to follow later, but the 
mother passed away before the time arranged for their 
departure. 

Coming direct to Indianapolis, after landing in New 
York, George P. Marott established a retail shoe store 
at 16 North Pennsylvania Street in partnership with 
Joseph Page, who taught George P. Marrott the art of 
shoemaking in England. 

With a capital of $167.00, the savings of nearly five 
years from wages of $10.00 a week, and an additional 
$175.00 received from a chattel mortgage of $200.00 
upon furniture, bed and carpet of their one-room resi¬ 
dence, and with a credit of $2,000.00 worth of shoes ob¬ 
tained to the extent of $200.00 from each of ten shoe 
manufacturers who knew Mr. Marott as a shoe clerk 
and who had faith in his honesty and success, Mr. 
Marott was enabled to establish a shoe store for him¬ 
self at 22 East Washington Street in 1884. 

The fourth year of business he had the largest shoe 
trade in the city and today it is the largest shoe shop 
m the United States per capita population. There are 
eight floors, five of them devoted to retailing shoes and 
the others to store and work rooms. The store has one 
hundred fourteen employees and is the only shoe store 
in the United States equipped with steel fixtures. 
Profits from the store were mostly invested in Indianap¬ 
olis real estate and public utilities. 

In 1900 Mr. Marott purchased the Logansport Street 
Railway Company of Logansport, Indiana, the deal be¬ 
ing consummated between the late J. P. Morgan, promi¬ 
nent New York financier. Two years later Mr. Marott 
had made the railway a paying proposition and dis¬ 
posed of the property at a handsome profit, notwith¬ 
standing the fact that for the seventeen years previous 
to his acquisition of the railway neither the bond nor 
the stockholders had received a cent income. 

In 1901 he bought the Kokomo Street Railway and 
Light properties and soon after organized the Kokomo, 
Marion & Western Traction Company and with associates 
built an interurban line from Kokomo to Marion. In 
1910 he organized the Kokomo Heat Company, erecting 
a hot water plant for the city, and the year following 
organized the Ivokomo-Frankfort Traction Company, an 
interurban line from Kokomo to Frankfort, completing 
the road in 1912. In all of the companies Mr. Marott 
held the presidency and controlling interest. In 1913 
all of these properties were consolidated into the Indiana 
Railways and Light Company, Mr. Marott remaining 
president. 


The Indiana Railways and Light Company owns the 
city railway in Kokomo, the interurban lines from Ko¬ 
komo to Marion and Frankfort, and the Light, Heat and 
Power Company of Kokomo. It supplies Kokomo with 
light, heat and power and also to twenty-four towns in 
the vicinity of Kokomo. 

Mr. Marott led in the establishment of the present 
Citizens Gas Company in 1905, and first organized, 
under the name of “George J. Marott and Associates,” 
the sixty-cent gas company which purchased the pipe 
lines and all property owned by the Consumers ’ Natural 
Gas Company for $415,000. The property so bought 
would cost several millions to install under paved streets. 

The sixty-cent gas movement was terrifically opposed 
by the Indianapolis Gas Company, which was alone in 
this field prior to the organization of the Citizens Gas 
Company. After the complete organization of the Gas 
Company and its success assured, Mr. Marott, because 
of the many requirements made upon his time by his 
other interests, withdrew his activity with the company. 

It is conservatively estimated that during the ten 
years’ period of sixty-cent gas service, Indianapolis con¬ 
sumers saved at least five million dollars and received 
10 per cent, dividends on their investments in the stock. 
In bringing about the organization of the Citizens Gas 
Company, Mr. Marott spent much time for two years 
and employed many men at his personal expense to 
solicit purchasers in the Citizens Gas Company stock and 
make contracts for gas service. The citizens became 
quite interested, and through the newspapers and mass 
meetings town talk grew so that nearly everybody, ex¬ 
cept those otherwise interested, wanted sixty-cent gas. 

In 1905 the company’s first office was located in the 
rear of 36 East Washington Street in the building then 
owned by Mr. Marott. 

In his activity for the establishment of the “Sixty- 
Oent Gas, ’ ’ Mr. Marott was vigorously supported by the 
Indianapolis News, which was at that time under the 
control of the late Delavan Smith. He was supported by 
the Board of Trade, and many prominent citizens were 
active for the victory. 

Mr. Marott owns large interests in various enter¬ 
prises, which include the Indian Hills Estates Company 
of Cleveland, Ohio, comprising one hundred fourteen 
acres on Euclid Avenue, of which sixty acres have im¬ 
provements costing $300,000 and are being rapidly built 
up with residential homes. 

Mr. Marott is a founder member of the Indianapolis 
Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants ’ Association. 
Member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Highland 
Golf and Country Club, Athenaeum, Iloosier Athletic 
Club, Kokomo Country Club, a thirty-second degree Scot¬ 
tish Rite and York Rite Mason, and a Shriner, also a 
member of the Knights of Pythias. 

Mr. Marott was married to Miss Ella P. Meek, No- 
vember 27, 1879, daughter of Jessie and Nancy Meek 
of Richmond, Indiana, whose ancestors were pioneers of 
Wayne County, Richmond, Indiana. 


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FREDERICK W. MARSCHKE 


Photograph by Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FREDERICK W. MARSCHKE 


F rederick ay. marschke, president of 

the Marschke Manufacturing Company, 
1815 Madison Avenue, was horn at Rathsdamn- 
itz, Germany, March 10, 1866, son of William 
and Ulrika (Geschke) Marschke. The early 
education of the subject of this sketch was re¬ 
ceived in the schools of his native town in Ger¬ 
many, after which he pursued a business course 
at Indianapolis Business College in this city. 

Upon his graduation from the German pub¬ 
lic schools, Kir. Marschke’s parents, due to the 
father’s poor health, determined to migrate to 
America and, on June 11, 1880, the entire 
family landed at New York, from which city 
they immediately came to Indianapolis. 

Upon arriving in Indianapolis, Mr. 
Marschke entered the Eagle Machine Works 
as an apprentice and in that capacity served 
for a period of four years. Then, as an expert 
machinist, he accepted a position with the 
Rockwood Manufacturing Company of this 
city, where during the last fifteen years of his 
association with that concern, he was in charge 
of the tool department. As a result of the ex¬ 
perience thus obtained Mr. Marschke became 
particularly well fitted for the work which he 
has since followed. The second year, while 
working at tlie Rockwood Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany, Mr. Marschke took up a business course 
at night. 

In Februarv, 1902, Mr. Marschke became a 
partner in the Crescent Machine Tool Company. 
Within a year’s time he sold out to his partners 
and founded the Standard Machine Company 
which continued in business until 1907 when 
the company merged with the Standard Elec¬ 
tric Repair Company and was incorporated as 
the Standard Machine & Electric Company to 
engage in manufacturing of automobile parts, 
and of which Mr. Marschke was elected 
president. 

At the time of this reorganization the op¬ 
erations of metal grinding and emery wheel 
work ivere someAvhat crude and injurious to 


the eyes of those doing that type of work, and 
in this connection Mr. F. AY. Marschke and his 
brother, W. A. Marschke, devised hoods and 
covers for emery wheels such as would elimin¬ 
ate injurious dust arising from the wheels dur¬ 
ing grinding processes. They obtained pat¬ 
ents upon these devices and also patents upon 
electric motors and starting switches. 

A firm of similar name entered the man¬ 
ufacturing business in Indianapolis, causing 
much confusion and so Air. ARarschke’s com¬ 
pany, as a result of the situation created, 
changed its name to the Afarschke Alanufac- 
turing Company, which is now deAmted to the 
manufacture of electric motors and motor 
driven grinders. 

During the World AVar the Alarschke Man- 
ufacturing Company manufactured parts for 
the famous Liberty and Hall-Scott motors 
used in airplanes. The company also made 
airplane testing machines and nine-pound 
shells for the Davis gun, and it is here of in¬ 
terest to relate that, without a single excep¬ 
tion, the entire output of the company passed 
at one hundred percent, the rigid tests and 
examinations of government inspectors, a most 
unusual and remarkable manufacturing record. 

AD. Alarschke is a member of the National 
Aletal Trades Association, the Indianapolis Em¬ 
ployers’ Association, the Iloosier Alotor Club, 
and the Iloosier Athletic Club. His church af¬ 
filiation is Avitli the Evangelical Lutheran 
Church, and in politics he is a Republican. His 
recreation is devoted to billiards, fishing and 
golf. 

On October 18, 1888, Air. Alarschke mar¬ 
ried Miss Bertha Laube at Indianapolis. They 
had four children: Airs. Elmer S. Wortman, 
(Aliss Frances Alarschke) ; Harold AY. 
Alarschke, Aliss Bertha Al. Alarschke, and 
Frederick II. Alarschke. On June 15, 1921, 
Air. Alarschke married Aliss Elizabeth II. Ateier. 
The family home is at 3360 Washington 
Boulevard. 


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Photograph hy Moorefield 

FREDERICK E. MATSON 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FREDERICK EUGENE MATSON 

F REDERICK EUGENE MATSON, attorney, senior member of the law firm 
of Matson, Carter, Ross & McCord, and former corporation counsel of the 
city of Indianapolis, was born on a farm near Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio, 
June 1, I860, son of George Meyers Matson and Margaret Catherine (Dodds) 
Matson, both natives of Ohio. Ilis father was a farmer and stock raiser and 
during the Civil War was an officer in the Union Army. 

In 1882 the family moved to a farm near Zanesville, Ohio, and it is of in¬ 
terest to record that this property still remains the family homestead. At the 
age of seventeen Mr. Matson became a teacher in the public schools near his 
home but after one year abandoned this work to become a commercial traveler. 
He then entered Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio, from which he 
graduated in 1893. A year later he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws at 
the University of Michigan. 

In 1894 Mr. Matson came to Indianapolis and here engaged in the practice 
of law. In 1900 he was nominated as the Republican candidate for State Sen¬ 
ator from Marion County in the General Assembly of Indiana, and was elected 
to serve for a period of four years. He served with much distinction in the 
Sixty-second General Assembly and, in the Sixty-third Assembly, two years 
later, was elected president pro tern and became the Republican floor leader. 
During an illness of Lieutenant-Governor Newton W. Gilbert, Mr. Matson was 
the actual presiding officer in the Senate for a considerable period of the session. 
He was the youngest Senator on the majority side and perhaps the youngest 
man ever to have been chosen president pro tern of the State Senate. 

When Hon. Charles W. Bookwalter became mayor of Indianapolis in 1906, 
Mr. Matson was appointed City Corporation Counsel. Reports of his depart¬ 
ment during the four years revealed that the legal business of the city was con¬ 
ducted at less expense than ever before in the history of the city. Noteworthy 
litigation in which Air. Matson represented the city included the Track Eleva¬ 
tion cases, the Gas case, the Brewery License case, the Smoke Ordinance case 
and the New Telephone franchise case. 

Upon retiring from head of the city’s legal department, at the conclusion 
of Mayor Bookwalter’s term in 1910, Mr. Matson engaged in general practice. 
He has specialized since, however, in municipal and corporation securities issues 
and during the past ten years has approved a very large part of the municipal 
and corporation securities issued in this state. 

Mr. Matson is secretary-treasurer of the Indianapolis Athletic Club Realty 
Company which financed and built the $1,750,000 nine-story building for the 
Indianapolis Athletic Club at Meridian and Vermont Streets; he is a member 
of the Board of Directors of the Indianapolis Athletic Club and a member of 
its finance committee and also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boys’ 
Preparatory School. Mr. Matson’s club and fraternal associations include the 
Columbia Club, the Highland Golf and Country Club, the Marion Club, the 
Rotary Club, Oriental Lodge No. 500 F. & A. M., Scottish Rite and the Murat 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He was president of the Indianapolis Rotary 
Club in 1919-20 and was a member of the special committee which drafted a new 
constitution and by-laws for International Rotary in 1921. 

The marriage of Mr. Matson to Miss Mabelle McKitrick of Marysville, 
Ohio, took place October 3, 1894. There is one son, Frederick George Matson. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



BERT McBRIDE 


Photograph by Dexheimer 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


BERT McBRIDE 

J2>ERT McBRIDE, banker, president of tlie Continental Na¬ 
tional Bank of Indianapolis, was born on a farm in Rush 
County, Indiana, the twentieth day of February, 1875. He is a son 
of William P. and Clarissa (Kirkpatrick) McBride. 

His ancestors were Scotch, having immigrated from Scotland 
to America in 1780, when they settled on Fishing Creek in South 
Carolina. On the land entered by them a battle was waged, during 
the Revolutionary War, between Colonel Tarleton, in command 
of the British troops, and General Gates, who was in command of 
the continental soldiers. During this battle they lost all their 
property and belongings, and they then moved to Boone County, 
Kentucky, where they resided until 1828, at which time they 
moved to Rush County, Indiana. On the farm entered by them in 
Rush County the subject of this sketch was born and reared. 

Mr. McBride received his education in the district schools of 
Rush County, graduating from the Danville University, of Dan¬ 
ville, Indiana, after which he attended the University of DePauw. 

After leaving DePauw Universitv lie was married to Miss 
Mary Amelia Widau, of Rush County, and continued to work on 
his father’s farm until he moved to Kniglitstown, Indiana, to en¬ 
gage in the buggy and harness business, after which he moved to 
Indianapolis in 1900. In 1905 he became head of the real estate 
department of the Security Trust Company, and one year later he 
was chosen for the presidency. He was president of the Security 
Trust Company until 1917, when he resigned to accept the presi¬ 
dency of the Continental National Bank, which position he now 
holds. 

Mr. and Mrs. McBride have one son, Richard Eugene, who is in 
Yale University. The family home is at 2012 North Delaware 
Street. 


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HON. ROBERT W. McBRIDE 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ROBERT W. McBRIDE 

ONE of the most eminent of Indianapolis lawyers is Robert W. 

McBride, counsel for the Loan Department of the State Life 
Insurance Company. A son of Augustus and Martha A. (Barnes) 
McBride, Robert W. was born January 25, 1812, at Richland 
County, Ohio. His early education was received in that locality, 
and he was yet young in life when he became a soldier in that 
costliest of civil conflicts, the War of the Rebellion. He was a 
member of the Seventh Independent Company of Ohio Volunteer 
Cavalry, known as the Union Light Guard or Abraham Lincoln’s 
Body Guard. 

Mr. BcBride enlisted November 27, 1863, and was in the 
service until September 9, 1865. Two years later he was admitted 
to the bar at Auburn, Indiana, and lie practiced law at Waterloo 
from April, 1867, to November, 1882. At that time he was elected 
judge of the Thirty-fifth Judicial Circuit, which position he held 
from November, 1882, to November, 1886. On December 17, 1890. 
he was appointed to serve the unexpired term of Hon. J. A. S. 
Mitchell as member of the Supreme Court, which terminated in 
January, 1893. 

A law partnership of more than eleven years’ duration was 
formed April 1, 1893, with C. S. Denny, the firm name being Mc¬ 
Bride & Denny. At the time of the dissolution Mr. McBride be¬ 
came counsel for the Loan Department of the State Life Insur¬ 
ance Company, which company he helped to organize. Mr. Mc¬ 
Bride now is the only remaining member of the original board of 
directors of that company. 

He is a member of the Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal 
Church, vice-president for Indiana of the American Bar Associa¬ 
tion, life member and past president of the Indiana State Bar 
Association, and life member of the Indianapolis Bar Association. 
Mr. McBride also is a member of the Indiana Academy of Science, 
Indiana Audubon Society, Indiana Nature Study Club, Columbia 
Club, and Century Club. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, Knight 
of Pythias, member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Past 
Eminent Commander of the Knights Templar, Past Department 
Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of 
Indiana, Past Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, Judge Advocate General of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, and No. 2 in membership of the Scottish 
Rite in Indiana. 

McBride married Miss Ida S. Chamberlain, September 
27, 1868, at Waterloo. There were four children: two daughters, 
Daisy 1. and Catherine M., and two sons, Charles H. and Herbert 
W. The McBride home is at 1431 Park Avenue, and Mr. McBride 
has offices at 1239 State Life Building. 


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E 

Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 

DR. CARLETON B. McCULLOCH 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. CARLETON BUEL McCULLOCH 

HR. CARLETON BUEL McCULLOCH, physician and sur- 

geon and medical director of the State Life Insurance Com¬ 
pany, was born at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, July 30, 1871, son of 
Rev. Oscar and Agnes (Buel) McCulloch. 

IVhen seven years of age he came to Indianapolis with his 
parents and here entered the public schools. Upon the completion 
of his high school work in 1889 he at first considered civil engineer¬ 
ing as a profession, but after one year at Rose Polytechnic de¬ 
termined to practice medicine and in 1895 graduated from the 
Chicago Homoeopathic Medical College. He then entered the 
practice of medicine in this city. 

In May, 1917, Dr. McCulloch was commissioned a Captain in 
the United States Army Reserve Corps, and in December of that 
year, as Adjutant of Lilly Base Hospital of Indianapolis, which 
later became officially known as United States Army Base Hos¬ 
pital No. 32, went overseas. Prior to this time, however, Dr. Mc¬ 
Culloch had been extremely active in the recruiting and selection 
of men attached to that organization. 

On September 26, Dr. McCulloch, who previously had been 
promoted to Major, was transferred to Mobile Hospital No. 11 
as commanding officer. Prior to that date, however, Dr. McCul¬ 
loch had been for a time on detached service with the French 
Army. On account of his participation with the French Third 
Army in the Noyon-Montdidier defensive, he was decorated with 
the Croix de Guerre. In October, 1918, he was promoted to the 
rank of Lieutenant Colonel and is now a Colonel in the United 
States Reserve. 

The subject of this sketch, while now devoting all of his time 
to the practice of his profession, has on various occasions been 
particularly active in political and civic undertakings, and in the 
campaign of 1920 was the Democratic candidate for governor of 
Indiana. 

Dr. McCulloch is a member of the Contemporary Club, the 
Country Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Indianapolis Literary 
Club, Indiana Democratic Club, Indianapolis Dramatic Club, 
Woodstock Club, and the University Club, the last mentioned 
being his place of residence. 

He is also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and. 
a member of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOSEPH A. McGOWAN 

JOSEPH A. McGOWAN lias been a resident of Indianapolis 
J for twenty years. Prior to liis coining here lie lived in Port¬ 
land, Maine, since the age of five. He was born in Gurteendar- 
ragh, County Leitrim, Ireland, on July 21, 1859, the son of Pat¬ 
rick and Sarah (McGloin) McGowan, and came with his parents 
in 1861, to Portland, Maine, where members of his family have 
ever since resided. 

Mr. McGowan was educated in the Public Schools of Port¬ 
land, Maine, and took special courses in business and civics. His 
first employment was with the Grand Trunk Railway Company 
in Portland, Maine, with which Company he remained until com¬ 
ing to Indianapolis. He entered the passenger department of the 
Grand Trunk Railway Company and later filled various positions 
of trust and responsibility in the freight, steamship and customs 
departments of that railroad. Besides being busy in the industrial 
and commercial life of Portland, Maine, he was active in many 
civic bodies, serving six years in the City Council, during which 
time he was elected President of that body. Later he served eight 
years as a member of the School Board of Portland, Maine, es¬ 
tablishing the first public evening school, succeeding his father at 
his death, who previously served thirteen years as a member of 
the School Board. 

Resigning his position with the Grand Trunk Railway Com¬ 
pany in April, 1903, he came at once to Indianapolis to be asso¬ 
ciated with his cousin, Hugh J. McGowan, who was then busily 
engaged in developing the Indianapolis Street Railway Company 
and Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company and laying the 
foundation of the large electric railwav svstems which have made 
the name of Hugh J. McGowan known throughout the country. 

Mr. Joseph A. McGowan is the secretary and treasurer of the 
Indianapolis Street Railway Company and Terre Haute, Indi¬ 
anapolis and Eastern Traction Company and is a director in both 
of these companies. He served four years as a member of the 
Board of School Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis. 

On October 22, 1891, Mr. McGowan married Miss Bertha H. 
Holding of Portland, Maine. They have four children; one daugh¬ 
ter, Miss Alice K., and three sons, Joseph A., Jr., who is a grad¬ 
uate of Georgetown University and now attending Harvard Law 
School; Hugh C., a student at Notre Dame University, and William 
K. completing his high school course. The family resides at 2021 
North Meridian Street. 


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HOMER McKEE 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HOMER McKEE 



ORDS and thoughts are so inseparably connected that an artist in words 


w is usually regarded an artist in thoughts. It would be exceedingly diffi¬ 
cult to find a truer living reflection of this assumption than is Mr. Homer Mc¬ 
Kee, president of the Homer McKee Company, Inc*., one of the important ad¬ 
vertising firms of the Middle West. 

Mr. McKee has had an unusually liberal experience with words and 
thoughts. When a reporter he learned the value of news words, when a cartoon¬ 
ist he knew the value of pictured thoughts, and now, as an advertising genius, 
he is well aware of the value of words that sell. Also as an author he fully 
understands the pleasant diversion of fiction and the inestimable value of true 
artistry in all phases of print. 

Homer McKee was born August 16, 1880, at Bloomfield, Indiana, the son 
of William B. and Elizabeth A. McKee. His early education was received in 
the public schools of his home town, and in 1903 he graduated from Indiana 
University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The following year Mr. McKee 
spent in Chicago, and there, while a member of the reportorial staff of a Chi¬ 
cago morning newspaper, studied at the Chicago Art Institute. 

The cartoons drawn by Mr. McKee, which appeared in the Star League of 
Indiana, the Dayton Journal and the Fort Wayne Journal, commanded much 
favorable comment. The drawings were reproduced in such periodicals as the 
Literary Digest and other important review publications. John T. McCutcheon, 
of the Chicago Tribune, selected Mr. McKee as one of America’s leading car¬ 
toonists, and reproduced work of Mr. McKee on the front page of that paper in 
1906, numbering it among others of his “All-American Cartoon Symposium.” 

In the employ of the Rice Electric Display Company (which concern 
later became Rice Leaders of the World), the Hollenbeck Press, and the Chelt¬ 
enham Aetna Press, Mr. McKee acted in the capacity of sales manager. He 
worked for a time in the copy and plans department of the Mahin Advertising 
Company of Chicago just before coming to Indianapolis to act as sales manager 
for the Cole Motor Car Company. Mr. McKee was with this company for two 
years. After a short time, as vice-president of the Russell M. Seeds Company, 
Mr. McKee founded, October 1, 1917, the Homer McKee Company, Inc. 

With his wealth of valuable experience at hand, Mr. McKee has been able 
to build up an organization of national reputation. He is accepted as one of the 
best merchandising counsellors in the country, and is admittedly one of the most 
forceful copy writers in America. Mr. McKee is author of “For Ports Un¬ 
known” and other works. 

Mr. McKee married Miss Mary Gray at Logansport, Indiana, in Septem¬ 
ber, 1903. There are three children: Robert, Elizabeth and Rudvard. The 
family lives at 3145 North Delaware Street. 

Mr. McKee is a member of the Columbia Club, Highland Golf and Country 
Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Indianapolis Country Club, University Club 
of Chicago and of the Murat Shrine. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



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0. E. McMEANS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ORANGE EDWARD McMEANS 


RANGE EDWARD McMEANS, proprie- 
tor of the firm of McMeans & Tripp, 
consulting engineers, was born at Richmond, 
Indiana, July 30, 1869, son of Marshall Ed¬ 
ward and Charlotte (Lemon) McMeans. His 
early education was obtained in the public 
schools of Richmond, Indiana, after which he 
entered Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre 
Haute, Indiana, from which he obtained the 
degree of Bachelor of Science in 1896, Master 
of Science in 1900, and Mechanical Engineer 
in 1901. While pursuing his studies at Rose 
Polytechnic Institute he was Editor-In-Chief, 
from 1895 to 1896, of “Rose Technic.” From 
1896 to 1899 he was instructor in drawing at 
that institution. From 1899 to 1900 he was 
Assistant Professor of Drawing at the Uni¬ 
versity of Kansas, at the end of which period 
he accepted a position as Mechanical Engineer 
with the Richmond City Mills Works at Rich¬ 
mond, Indiana, in which capacity he served 
until 1902, when he became Chief Engineer of 
the Nordyke & Marmon Company, at In¬ 
dianapolis. 

In 1904, having gained valuable practical 
and technical knowledge in connection with his 
previous undertakings, Mr. McMeans estab¬ 
lished the industrial engineering firm of Mc¬ 
Means & Tripp, and of this firm he has since 
1917 been the sole proprietor. 

Mr. McMeans has designed and built many 
of the large food specialty packing plants in 
the United States, notable among them being 
such institutions as those operated by the 
Sears & Nichols Canning Company, Green¬ 
wood, Indiana; Columbus Canning Company, 
Columbus, Wisconsin; Fremont Canning Com¬ 
pany, Fremont, Michigan; Godfrey Packing 
Company, Benton Harbor, Michigan; Geneva 
Preserving Company, Geneva, New York; 
Dixie Fruit Products Company, Mobile, Ala¬ 
bama; Kuner Pickle Company, Brighton near 
Denver, Colorado; Waupun Canning Company, 
Waupun, Wisconsin; Galesville Canning Com¬ 
pany, Galesville, Wisconsin; Fort Atkinson 
Canning Company, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; 
Prairie State Canning Company, El Paso, Illi¬ 
nois; Dickinson & Company, Washington, Illi¬ 


nois ; J. IT. Doxsee & Sons, Marco near Key 
West, Florida; also the great fruit products 
plant of The Rhodes Fruit Farms, Ltd., Groot 
Drakenstein, Cape Province, South Africa. 
Mr. McMeans is Consulting Engineer for The 
Indiana Reformatory, Pendleton, Indiana; In¬ 
diana Village for Epileptics, Newcastle, Indi¬ 
ana ; Northern Indiana Hospital for Insane, 
Logansport, Indiana, and Iloosier Manufactur¬ 
ing Company, Newcastle, Indiana. Among In¬ 
dianapolis plants produced by his engineering 
organization are: The Service Spring Com¬ 
pany ; The Central Public Warehouse Company, 
The Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Company, 
and the Foundry of the Keyless Lock Company. 

As one devoted to the theory that relaxation 
is essential to successful business achievement, 
Air. McMeans is keenly interested in photog¬ 
raphy, radio, and the Boy Scout organization, 
lie designed and erected many years ago a 
radio station at his residence and is a profi¬ 
cient operator in both the Morse and Continen¬ 
ts codes. lie organized Troop 17, Bov Scouts, 
and was its scoutmaster for nine years. He is 
also interested in Literary work and is a fre¬ 
quent contributor to popular magazines and 
trade journals. He is the author of the chap¬ 
ter on “Engineering” in the “Treatise on the 
Canning Industry” by W. D. Bigelow, chief 
chemist of the National Canners’ Association, 
Washington, D. C. 

Mr. McMeans is a certified member of the 
American Association of Engineers, member 
of the American Society of Mechanical Engi¬ 
neers, a member of the Indiana Engineering 
Society, the Sigma Xi Engineering and Scien¬ 
tific fraternity, the Scientech Club of Indianap¬ 
olis, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, a 
charter member of the Local Council of Boy 
Scouts of America, and a Veteran Scoutmaster. 
He is a ruling elder in Memorial Presbyterian 
Church. 

The marriage of Mr. McMeans to Miss Jen¬ 
nie W. Fox, who is now executive secretary of 
the Indianapolis Council of Camp Fire Girls, 
took place at Terre Haute, Indiana, November 
26, 1896. There are two children, Wayne Fox 
and Mary. The family residence is at 591 
Middle Drive Woodruff Place. 



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UZ McMURTRIE 


Photograph by Dexlieimer 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


UZ McMURTRIE 

TZ McMURTRIE, president of the Robbins Body Corporation and for a 
number of years prominently identified with public affairs of Indiana, 
was born at Attica, Indiana, July 12, 1884, son of William and Elizabeth G. 
(Starr) McMurtrie. His early education was received in the public schools of 
Attica and Marion, Indiana, after which he attended Indiana University at 
Bloomington, graduating therefrom in 1908, with the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts. lie was president of his senior class and a member of the Phi Kappa Psi, 
National college fraternity. 

Upon the conclusion of his college course, Mr. McMurtrie returned to 
Marion and there became deputy treasurer of Grant County, serving for five 
years. In the well-remembered election of 1912 he was elected treasurer of 
Grant County on the Republican ticket and in that capacity served for a 
period of four years, having been re-elected to the office in the fall of 1914 
1o serve until December 31, 1916. In November, 1916, Mr. McMurtrie was 
elected Treasurer of State on the Republican ticket, taking office February 
11, 1917 and serving two terms of two years each until February 11, 1921 
In connection with these public offices, it is of interest to here recall that Mr. 
McMurtrie possesses the distinction of having been the youngest man ever 
to serve either as treasurer of Grant County or as treasurer of the State of 
Indiana. 

In addition to the activities associated with public offices held, Mr. Mc- 
Murtrie has been largely engaged in financial and commercial affairs of 
Indianapolis. In December, 1919 he organized, with others, the Robbins Body 
Corporation, of which he has since been continuously the president. In 1918, 
with others, he formed the American Finance Company—commercial paper 
brokers—of which he was at that time elected treasurer and of which, in 
1923, he became president. 

In June, 1921, Mr. McMurtrie was elected president of the Alumni As¬ 
sociation of Indiana University and re-elected in 1922. During these years he 
was active in organizing and forwarding the Indiana University Memorial 
Fund movement to which Alumni responded with gifts totalling more than a 
million dollars. In 1922, he was elected an Alumni member of the Athletic 
Board of Control of Indiana University. 

Mr. McMurtrie is a member of the Highland Golf and Country Club, 
Columbia Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Marion Club and Iloosier Motor 
Club. In the Masonic fraternity he is a member of Samaritan Lodge, No. 105, 
F. & A. M. and the York Rite bodies at Marion, Indiana, the Scottish Rite 
bodies at Indianapolis and the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

The marriage of Mr. McMurtrie to Miss Elizabeth Ilogin took place at 
Marion, Indiana, February 11, 1914. There is one son, William Ilogin Mc¬ 
Murtrie. Mrs. McMurtrie is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ilogin, 
the former being prominent in business and banking circles at Marion. 


431 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



FELIX M. McWHIRTER 


Photograph hy Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FELIX MARCUS McWHIRTER 



ELIX MARCUS McWHIRTER, son of Felix Tony and Luella Frances 


1 (Smith) McWhirter, was born June 14, 1886, at Greencastle, Indiana. 

He has been connected with the Peoples State Bank, of which he is now 
president, for sixteen years, having entered the bank as bookkeeper and note 
teller in 1906, following his graduation from DePauw Universtiy. The year 
after he entered the bank he was elected assistant cashier; in 1908 was made 
cashier, and in 1913 was elected vice-president, and in 1915 became presidnt of 
the institution. 

Mr. McWhirter is a member of the United States Chamber of Commerce 
and of the International Chamber of Commerce, and has been actively engaged 
in Chamber of Commerce work since 1906. In 1915 he was elected a member 
of the Board of Directors of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, in 1916 
he was vice-president of the organization; for five years (1918-1922) he was 
treasurer, and in December, 1922, he was elected president of the Chamber 
to serve for 1923. He attended the organization meeting of the International 
Chamber of Commerce in Paris, France, in 1920, as a member of the finance 
committee, and in 1921 went to London, England, to attend the first annual 
international Chamber of Commerce conference in the same capacity. Mr. 
McWhirter also attended the second general meeting of the International 
Chamber of Commerce, held in March, 1923, at Rome, Italy. 

During the war, Mr. McWhirter was chairman of the Marion County War 
Savings Committee, and a member of Governor Goodrich’s military staff dur¬ 
ing 1917, 1918, 1919 and 1920. From 1918 to 1921 he was one of three 
commissioners of the Board of Public Safety. 

In addition to his responbilities as president of the Peoples State Bank, 
Mr. McWhirter is a director in the United States Chamber of Commerce, a 
director of the Fletcher American Company and of the Will II. Wade Com¬ 
pany, investment bankers, of Denver, Colorado; treasurer of the Ostrom 
Realty Company, and president of the Peoples Building Company, owner of 
the Peoples Bank Building. He is a member of the reclamation committee of 
the United States Chamber of Commerce, the advisory board of the Industrial 
Finance Corporation, New York City, and since 1919 has been a member of the 
athletic board of DePauw University. He is also a member of the Sons of th*j 
American Revolution, University Club, Iviwanis Club, Optimist Club, Hoosier 
Motor Club, and was a founder member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club. 
He is a member of the Meridian Street Methodist Church. 

Mr. McWhirter married Miss Alma Phillips, June 12, 1908, and there are 
three children: Alma Jane, twelve years old; Felix Tony, six years old, and 
Luella Frances, three years old. The family resides at 1331 Park Avenue. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



SOL MEYER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


SOL MEYER 

C OL MEYER, banker, president of the Meyer-Kiser Bank and 
^ the Meyer-Kiser Corporation, was born at Fort Recovery, 
Ohio, October 22,1866, the son of Ferdinand and Leah (Steinfelt) 
Meyer. His early education was obtained in the common schools 
of the city of his birth, but at the age of fourteen years left school 
to take up telegraphy with the Lake Erie & Western Railroad at 
Fort Recovery. Prior to this, from the time he was nine years of 
age until he secured his position with the railroad, he worked, 
when not in school, as a newsboy to support his mother. The 
father of the subject of this sketch died when the latter was but 
seven years of age and it was indeed a struggle for the mother to 
maintain the four children, of which Sol Meyer was the third. 

From 1883 to 1888 Mr. Meyer was continuously employed as a 
telegrapher. During that time lie was manager of the Western 
Union Telegraph Company and operator for the Lake Erie & 
Western Railroad at Portland, Indiana ; with the Western Union 
Telegraph Company at Richmond, in which city lie also served the 
Associated Press in the taking of reports for the Richmond Tele¬ 
gram; with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Richmond and with the 

O 7 4/ 

Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Indianapolis, Indiana. He 
was transferred to Indianapolis from Richmond bv the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Railroad, December 10, 1888, as an accountant in the engi¬ 
neering department and this marks Air. Meyer’s arrival in this 
city, in which he has continuously resided to the present time. 

Shortly after the transfer of Mr. Meyer to Indianapolis he 
was made chief accountant in the office of the superintendent of 
the Pennsvlvania lines. There he remained until Januarv, 1895, 
when he resigned his position to become associated with Mr. Sol 
S. Kiser, elsewhere mentioned in this volume. 

The firm of Meyer and Kiser, brokers, real estate and insur¬ 
ance, was formed in November, 1895, and still operates under the 
same name. The Meyer-Kiser Bank was incorporated in 1906, at 
which time Mr. Meyer became president of the institution. In 
1920 the Meyer-Kiser Corporation was incorporated with a capital 
of $1,500,000, and of this, too, Mr. Meyer was elected president by 
the board of directors. 

Mr. Meyer married Miss Florence Strauss, January 9, 1897, 
at Washington, D. C. There are three children, Ferdinand S., 
Edward and Sol, Jr. The family resides at 4122 North Meridian 
Street. 

Mr. Meyer is a member of the Highland Golf and Country 
Club, Columbia Club, Indianapolis Club, Broadmor Country Club, 
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Bond Men’s 
Club, Elks, Indianapolis Stock Exchange and B’nai Britli. 


435 


INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



J. P. MICHAEL 


Photograph hy Bretzman 


436 






INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


J. P. MICHAEL 

J P. MICHAEL, wholesale grocer, president of the J. P. Michael 
4 Company at 441 South Illinois Street, was born at Berlin, 
Germany, January 12, 1862, son of Phillip and Pauline (Posner) 
Michael. He received his education in the public schools. 

Coming to America in 1880, Mr. Michael engaged in various 
enterprises until 1890 when lie established a wholesale grocery 
business at Rochester, Indiana. Twelve years later he acquired 
the wholesale grocery business of the August M. Kuhn Company, 
in this city, and then moved his family to Indianapolis where he 
has since resided. In the Kuhn company location on Georgia 
Street, Air. Michael remained until 1911 when he erected a four- 
story building at 441 South Illinois Street to house the business 
which had grown phenomenally. His building is one of the latest 
in design for the wholesale grocery business. 

Activities of the J. P. Michael Company extend throughout 
Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan, the business showing a sub¬ 
stantial increase each year. His “Payette” and “ J. P. M.” brands 
of canned goods find wide distribution in these states and in addi¬ 
tion his business includes a full line of grocery stock. During the 
war a large part of the canned goods and grocery food used at 
Fort Benjamin Harrison was supplied by the J. P. Michael 
Company. 

Air. Alichael is a member of the National Wholesale Grocers’ 
Association and of the Indiana AAdiolesale Grocers’ Association, 
having been active in each of these organizations. He is also a 
member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and the Ki- 
wanis Club of Indianapolis. 


437 


INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



ADDISON F. MILLER 


Photograph by Moorefield 


438 


















INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ADDISON F. MILLER 

A DDISON F. MILLER, son of Jacob and Anna (HaswelD 

Miller, was born February 14, 1872, at Columbus, Ohio. His 
early education was received in the public schools of Columbus, 
after which he attended the State University of Ohio. Like many 
otlieis who have attained prominence in theatrical circles, Mr. 
Miller began his theatrical career as an usher in the theatres of 
the city of his birth. He is now vice-president of the Valentine 
Company and manager of English’s Theatre of this city. 

During all of Mr. Miller’s business life he has been continu¬ 
ously identified with legitimate houses, the first of which was the 
Metropolitan Opera House at Columbus. After some years there 
he moved to the Grand, another Columbus theatre, and later went 
to Cleveland, Ohio. There he was with the Lyceum theatre. After 
a short stay in Cleveland, Mr. Miller returned to the Grand at 
Columbus, where he remained until he went to Toledo, Ohio. In 
that city he was with the Valentine house and later with the Great 
Southern at Columbus, Ohio. 

In 1898 Mr. Miller came to Indianapolis and assumed the 
management of English’s theatre here and has held this position 
to the present writing. The Valentine Company operates Eng¬ 
lish’s theatre in Indianapolis and the Hartman theatre at Colum¬ 
bus, Ohio. Until recently released, this company also operated the 
Victoria theatre at Dayton, Ohio, and the Fairbanks theatre at 
Springfield, Ohio. 

Mr. Miller married Miss Irene Bliss of Columbus, Ohio, 
August 17, 1897. There are two children, Mary Ann and Addison 
B. The son is a student at Wabash College and the daughter is 
completing a course at Butler College after which she will attend 
a finishing school in the east. 

The family resides at English’s hotel. Mr. Miller is a mem¬ 
ber of the Indianapolis Athletic Club. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



DICK MILLER 


Photograph by Dexlieimer 




















INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DICK MILLER 

TNI OK MILLER, real estate man, lawyer, president of the City 
^ Trust Company, and for the last twenty years one of the out¬ 
standing figures in political and public life in Indianapolis, was 
born January 12, 1871, in Parke County, son of James N. and 
Sarrah A. Miller. 

His early education was received in the county and grade 
schools and at Bloomingdale Academy. He then attended Indiana 
University and later took a course in law at the Indianapolis Uni¬ 
versity Law School. In 1897 he started to practice law in Terre 
Haute and remained there for four years. In the fall of 1901, Mr. 
Miller came to Indianapolis; but, instead of devoting his entire 
attention to the law, he started a bond business, known as Miller 
& Co., Inc., and became immediately successful. In 1918 he sold 
the business to the City Trust Company, becoming president of the 
institution. 

Mr. Miller, in addition to being president of one of the most 
firmly established banking institutions in the state, has a variety 
of other business interests. He is vice-president of the Hogan 
Transfer Company, president of the Miller Realty Company, 
president of the Warehouse Realty Company, and is treasurer of 
the State Chamber of Commerce. 

Mr. Miller has been identified with almost every public-spirit¬ 
ed Indianapolis enterprise of the last score of years, and took an 
active interest in politics before coming to Indianapolis to make 
his home. In 1896 he was elected to the Indiana State Legislature 
from Parke County: four vears later he ran for State Senator 
from Vigo County and, although he was defeated, the defeat was 
by only three votes, and Mr. Miller ran six hundred votes ahead 
of his ticket. In 1917 he ran for Mayor of Indianapolis. 

While the war was in progress, Mr. Miller gave lavishly of 
his time and of his talents as a public speaker, and contributed 
largely to the success of the Liberty Loan and other drives. Mr. 
Miller is regarded as one of the best public speakers in the state, 
and his services in this direction have been in great demand, hav¬ 
ing the ability to hold and interest his audience for as long as he 
will consent to talk. 

On June 28, 1906, Mr. Miller married Miss Catherine E. 
Trimble. They have two adopted children, Genevieve and Juan- 
eta. The family resides at 3130 North Delaware Street. 


441 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Bretzman 

OREN A. MILLER 


442 















INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


OREN A. MILLER 



MONO those men who have come into prominence in a business 


way in Indianapolis, is Oren A. Miller, president and general 
manager of the Wm, F. Johnson Lumber Company. With his 
partner, E. G. Kemper, in May, 1918, Mr. Miller acquired the con¬ 
trolling interest in the concern he now heads, and in July, 1921, 
the two men acquired the entire interests of the company. 

Mr. Miller, a son of Phillip and Susan E. Miller, was born 
February 18,1872, at Dublin, Indiana. His parents were farmers, 
and Mr. Miller’s early education was obtained in the little country 
school house just north of Dublin. He later attended high schoo 1 
at Dublin and engaged in work with his parents for a short period 
after finishing high school. 

In September, 1901, he moved to the city of Richmond, where 
he later entered the building and contracting business. In March, 
1911, with his present partner, Mr. Kemper, Mr. Miller organized 
the Miller-Kemper Company of Richmond, engaging in the retail 
lumber, planing mill and builders’ supply business, but continued 
for the time being his building and contracting work. Many of 
the more impressive residences and business buildings of Rich¬ 
mond were constructed under his guidance. Mr. Miller was presi¬ 
dent and general manager of the Miller-Kemper Company. 

Shortly after the Wm. F. Johnson interests were acquired b y 
the Richmond concern, Mr. Miller became president of the 
company. He also immediately assumed the general management 
of the company and removed to Indianapolis. 

Mr. Miller is a member of the Iviwanis Club, Odd Fellows, 
Red Men, Benevolent Order of Elks, and is affiliated with the 
Masonic order. He is a member of the Indianapolis Maennerclior 
Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and secretary-treasurer of the 
Court Realty Company of Indianapolis, a company extensively 
engaged in building and selling houses in Indianapolis. During 
1921 Mr. Miller was president of the Indiana Builders’ Supply 
Association and is a member of the board of directors of the Na¬ 
tional Builders’ Supply Association. 

On December 31, 1891, Mr. Miller married Miss Bertha M. 
Gelir, of East Germantown, Indiana, There are two children—a 
son, Claude G., and a daughter, Glenna. The Miller home is at 
3630 Coliseum Avenue, and the offices of the company over which 
Mr. Miller presides are located at Nineteenth Street and the 
Monon Railroad. 


443 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



FRANK V. MILLS 


Photograph by Baclirach 


444 






INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRANK V. MILLS 



RANK V. MILLS, member of the firm of Pinkus, Mills and 


1 Pinkus, general agents for the Northwestern Mutual Life 
Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was born at West- 
field, Illinois, son of Samuel and Sarah (Mason) Mills. 

The early education of the subject of this sketch was obtained 
in the public schools of the city of his birth, after which he at¬ 
tended Westfield College. Immediately following the completion* 
of this work Mr. Mills removed to Terre Haute, Indiana, and there 
for a period of years engaged in the insurance business. 

In 1912 Mr. Mills came to Indianapolis, as a representative of 
the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, having prev¬ 
iously represented that company since 1900, and this he personally 
continued until 1916, when, together with Messrs. I. and V. E. 
Pinkus, he formed the partnership above mentioned to represent 
the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in sixty-three 
counties of Indiana. 

In connection with the many years during which Mr. Mills 
has been actively engaged in insurance work, it is of interest to 
here note that to him was awarded in 1911 the Northwestern 
Mutual Life Insurance Company Certificate of Merit, showing 
that, in a given class, he personally wrote during the preceding 
vear, more insurance than anv other individual in the entire or- 
ganization, and that regardless of class, he ranked third among 
the company’s individual writers of life insurance. At this time 
Mr. Mills is regarded as one of the largest individual producers 
of life insurance in the State of Indiana. 

Mr. Mills is a member of the Columbia Club, the Indianapolis 
Athletic Club and the Highland Golf and Country Club, and since 
his first arrival in Indianapolis has been actively identified with 
public affairs of this city, having from time to time been among 
those affiliated with various civic campaigns and charitable 
undertakings. 

The marriage of Mr. Mills to Miss Lucile Iv. Keith occurred 
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. There is one child, Virginia. Mr. and 
Mrs. Mills reside at 3058 North Pennsylvania Street. 


445 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



HARRY B. MILLSPAUGH 


Photograph by Bretzman 


446 






INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HARRY B. MILLSPAUGH 

H ARRY B. MILLSPAUGH, of Millspaugh & Irish, automobile body manu¬ 
facturers, was born in Connersville, Indiana, July 17, 1890. He is the son 
of Byron Elmer and Luella (Smith) Millspaugh, and received his grammar 
school education in the grade schools of Connersville. When it was time to enter 
high school, his parents moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, and he attended Manu¬ 
al Training High School. 

His early training for designing and manufacturing of custom bodies for 
motor cars was obtained in the drafting room of Xordyke & Marmon, Indian¬ 
apolis, where he went to work in 190.7. It was in this drafting room that he 
formed the acquaintanceship which resulted in his partnership with Clarence R. 
Irish and the formation of the firm of Millspaugh & Irish years afterward. 

After two years at Xordyke & Marmon, he became draftsman for Irvin- 
Robbins, the oldest manufacturers of automobile bodies in Indiana, and a firm 
which for years had done custom and fine body manufacturing for the carriage 
and automobile trade. In a short time he became body designer and traveling 
representative for Irvin-Robbins and placed tbe product of the firm with leading 
manufacturers in the East and West. In 1910 he joined the sales force of the 
Racine Manufacturing Company, of Racine, Wisconsin, a body-building concern 
which specialized in quality production of open and closed type bodies. Being 
successful with the Racine concern and seeing the market in Indianapolis for 
custom-built bodies, he decided to go into business. With Clarence R. Irish he 
formed a partnership and rented a building at 539 East Washington Street 
early in 1914. 

The firm started out to build only custom bodies, designed and produced in 
their shop: also repairing and repainting of closed bodies. The quality of its 
product soon attracted the attention of the manufacturers, and in 1916 moved 
to larger quarters at 212 West McCarty Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, and 
started quantity production of closed bodies. 

After three years in this location the firm moved to its present plant at 
South LaSalle Street and Clayton Avenue, formerly occupied by the Mais Motor 
Truck Company. The factory was purchased by Millspaugh & Irish and com¬ 
pletely renovated and remodeled for body production. The firm is now known 
in automotive circles as one of the leading producers of high-grade motor coach 
bodies for the automobile trade. 

Early in 1923 the firm of Millspaugh & Irish was incorporated under the 
same name at $1,500,000 with Mr. Millspaugh as president. The new corporation 
will continue operations in the manufacture of automobile bodies as in the past, 
the incorporation having been brought about merely for business expansion. 

Mr. Millspaugh is married and resides at 3505 Guilford Avenue. There is 
one son, Robert Dane Millspaugh, born July 16, 1915. 

Mr. Millspaugh is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Chamber 
of Commerce, Kiwanis Club; and in Masonry is an active member of Center 
Lodge Xo. 23, F. and A. M.; Indianapolis Chapter No. 5, R. A. M.; the Scottish 
Rite, and Murat Temple. 

In his career as a business man he has made many friends in Indianapolis 
and enjoys a wide acquaintanceship in national automotive circles. 


447 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



IRA A. MINNICK 


Photograph by Moorefield 


448 




INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


IRA A. MINNICK 

JRA A. MINNICK, manufacturer and big game hunter, president 
of the National Dry Kiln Company, and vice-president and 
treasurer of the Humidity Control Company, was born at Somer¬ 
set, Indiana, on October 23,1878, son of Jacob and Sarah (Lawshe) 
Minnick. He was educated in the public schools of Richland 
Township of Grant County. 

He came to Indianapolis in 1898 and entered business college, 
continuing in the school for a few months, and then became asso¬ 
ciated with the wood-drying industry. In 1905 he joined the Na¬ 
tional Dry Kiln organization and his advancement was rapid, be¬ 
coming its president in 1914. National Dry Kiln products are 
widely used in the United States, and it is estimated that almost all 
of the lumber used in the automobile industry, particularly the 
body-building branch, is dried in kilns made by this Indianapolis 
plant. Kilns for a large number of furniture factories, piano fac¬ 
tories, wheel plants, planing and saw mills are Indianapolis-made 
kilns from the National Dry Kiln factory. 

Big game hunting and fishing is Mr. Minnick’s hobby and in 
its pursuit he lias traveled to many parts of the United States and 
even into Alaska and New Brunswick. Mr. Minnick hunted deer 
in both Michigan wilds and upper Wisconsin, bagging some very 
fine specimens which he lias had mounted. Moose hunting in New 
Brunswick and far up in Alaska has its thrills for Mr. Minnick, 
and his collection of trophies include three moose heads, several 
Alaskan mountain sheep, some big bear skins and some large speci¬ 
mens of the finny tribe. 

On one of his hunting trips in Alaska in 1921 he shot a moose 
with pans of fifty-seven and a half-inch spread and another one 
with pans slightly smaller. His fishing trips have taken Mr. 
Minnick to the tarpon fishing grounds in the Gulf of Mexico and 
on the Florida coast, Canadian lakes, and on the Atlantic and 
Pacific Coasts. 

Mr. Minnick is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Columbia Club, and the Iviwanis Club. 

He married Miss Clara C. McLaughlin at Indianapolis on 
June 22, 1904. They have one daughter, Mary Louise. The family 
home is at 3828 Carrollton Avenue. 


449 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 



Ptotograyh by Bretzman 

DR. EDWARD L. MITCHELL 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDWARD L. MITCHELL 

£7 DWARD L. MITCHELL, D. D. S., specializing in the practice 

of Orthodontia, was born at Lane, Miami County, Kansas, 
December 15,1880, son of John and Sarah (Burns) Mitchell. His 
early education was obtained in the public schools of the state of 
Kansas, after which he entered the Dental College at Keokuk, 
Iowa, (now the Dental Department of Drake University, Des- 
Moines, Iowa) from which he graduated in 1906, with the degree 
of Doctor of Dental Surgery. 

Upon the completion of this collegiate course. Dr. Mitchell im¬ 
mediately began the general practice of dentistry at Arkansas, 
Kansas. This he continued until 1909 when he entered the Angle 
School of Orthodontia at New York City and in which he pursued 
special courses relating to that particular branch of the dental 
profession. 

In 1911, Dr. Mitchell came to Indianapolis, where he has 
since devoted his practice exclusively to orthodontia—the correc¬ 
tion of irregularities of the teeth and mal-formed jaws—and in 
which he has gained an enviable reputation throughout the Com¬ 
monwealth. 

Dr. 5! itchell is a member of the Indianapolis Dental Society, 
Indiana State Dental Society, American Dental Association, 
Eastern Association of Angle Orthodontists and the Alumni So¬ 
ciety of the Angle School of Orthodontists. He is also a member 
of the Highland Golf and Country Club, Indainapolis Athletic 
Club, Columbia Club, Hoosier Athletic Club, Kiwanis Club and 
the Chamber of Commerce. 

The marriage of Dr. Mitchell to Miss Eva Stiles took place 
at Covington, Kentucky, July 2, 1920. Mrs. Mitchell died March 
20, 1921. On August 18, 1928, Dr. Mitchell was married to Miss 
Beulah House, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. D. A. House of Indi¬ 
anapolis. Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell reside at 3146 North Delaware 
Street. 


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GEORGE H. MOORE 


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GEORGE H. MOORE 


A FTER having visited, either on business or otherwise, prac¬ 
tically every city of consequence in the United States, and 
after having traveled extensively throughout Europe, it is alto¬ 
gether fitting that George H. Moore should be a resident of Indi¬ 
anapolis, the city which he believes best of all. Mr. Moore, a son 
of Aaron H. and Eloisa Moore, was born in Wilmington, Ohio, 
and has been in the real estate and general insurance business in 
Indianapolis since 1905. He operates George H. Moore & Com¬ 
pany, with offices at 213-219 Lemcke Building. 


Mr. Moore spent his early days in Richmond, Indiana, and it 
was there that he received his education. After leaving Richmond 
he was, for many years, in Kansas. Later Mr. Moore took a posi¬ 
tion with the W. W. Mooney & Sons firm at Columbus, Indiana, 
and Louisville, Kentucky, and for twelve years sold goods for this 
organization. While traveling for this company Mr. Moore pur¬ 
chased real estate in various parts of the country, and his Indi¬ 
anapolis investments were so attractive that he decided to resign 
from his position and open offices in this city. This he did in 
1905, beginning with a small room in the Lombard Building. He 
later moved to 128 East Market Street, and during the last five 
years has occupied offices at his present location. 

The company has grown to be one of the leading real estate 
and insurance agencies of Indianapolis, being general state agent 
for the Royal Indemnity Company of New York, carrying all 
lines of casualty, compensation and bonds; local agent for the 
Royal Insurance Company, Liverpool, and local agent for the 
National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut. 


Many of the largest downtown and residence real estate deals 
have been closed through the George H. Moore & Company offices. 

Mr. Moore is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the 
Columbia Club, Highland Golf Club, and is affiliated with the 
Mystic Tie, Shrine, Murat Temple, and the Benevolent Order of 
Elks. Mr. Moore lives at the Columbia Club. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JESSIE C. MOORE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JESSE CAMERON MOORE 


T ESSE CAMERON MOORE, son of Cameron 
J and Jennie Webber Moore, was born in 
Delphi, Indiana, September 24, 1868. lie went 
through the grades and high school in Delphi, 
one year in the high school of Ann Arbor, Mich¬ 
igan, and then through the literary and law de¬ 
partments of the University of Michigan, re¬ 
ceiving the degrees of Ph. B. and LL. B. He 
also had one year at Harvard. 

Mr. Moore came to Indianapolis July 10, 
1894, and engaged in the practice of law until 
December 31, 1900, when he withdrew from his 
law partnership with Oliver IT. Carson, the 
firm being known as Carson & Moore. 

During the fall of 1896, Mr. Moore, as at¬ 
torney, incorporated the industry known as 
the Columbia School Supply Company and 
became its secretary and treasurer, offices 
which he has had ever since. In the latter part 
of 1900, Mr. Moore and his brothers bought the 
interests of other stockholders, and he gave up 
his law practice to take active charge of the 
corporation, which then occupied a small rented 
room, had twelve employees and a very meagre 
output. 

Since 1900 the business has enjoyed a steady 
growth, having never closed down except for 
legal holidays. It occupies its own building 
at 314-334 West Seventeenth Street, contain¬ 
ing one and one-half acres of floor space, and 
employs 120 to 200 people. 

The products of the company include 
schoolroom, laboratory, domestic science and 
manual training furniture and scientific appa¬ 
ratus, which go to the schools throughout 
North and South America. Frequently orders 
of scientific apparatus are sent to foreign 
countries. 

Orders are obtained, for the most part, by 
catalogue and correspondence, this company 
being the pioneer in its attempts to save the 
schools the hitherto great expense of school 
supply salesmen. 

Most of the furniture above mentioned is 
manufactured of steel, the Columbia company 


being the first to nse steel in this class of prod¬ 
ucts. Four patents have been granted to Mr. 
Moore, and twelve more to him and bis broth¬ 
er, William Allen Moore, jointly, in school 
appliances. 

In addition to steel furniture for schools, 
the campany manufacturers and sells a com¬ 
plete line of steel furniture for hospitals and 
an all-steel white enameled kitchen cabinet, 
under the name of Moore Brothers, to distin¬ 
guish them from the school furniture line. 

Moore Brothers Sani-steel furniture is sold 
by catalogue, allowing the same economies to 
hospitals as to schools. 

During the years 1906-1912, Mr. Moore car¬ 
ried on agitation and litigation for uniform 
charges to be made by the public utilities, 
which was followed by the organization of the 
Utility Commission, before which he filed the 
first petitions and obtained an equalization of 
rates. 

Mr. Moore is president of the Investors’ 
Realty Company, and secretary of the Stand¬ 
ard Coal and Supply Company, both realty 
holding companies. By reason of these con¬ 
nections and his individual interests, he lias 
been enabled to locate a number of business 
enterprises, especially those needing freight 
terminal facilities. 

Since 1899, Mr. Moore has been a trustee 
and sccretan^ of the board of the First Baptist 
Church, is president of the board of Crawford 
Baptist Industrial School for Orphans, near 
Zionville, and a trustee of Franklin College. 

lie is a thirty-second degree Mason, mem¬ 
ber of the Chamber of Commerce, Uoosier Mo¬ 
tor Club, Century Literary Club, and several 
college organizations. 

On June 3, 1903, he was married to Miss 
Frances Ilershey, of Sterling, Illinois, a grad¬ 
uate of Wellesley College, who has taken an 
active interest in the higher education for 
women. Mr. and Mrs. Moore reside at 1821 
North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, 
Indiana. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Mabel Sykes—Chicago 

CHARLES W. MOORES 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 

CHARLES W. MOORES 


C HARLES WASHINGTON MOORES, mem¬ 
ber of the firm of Pickens, Moores, Dav¬ 
idson & Pickens, attorneys, is a native Iloosier, 
having been born in the city of Indianapolis, 
Indiana, February 15, 1862, son of Charles 
Washington and Julia Dumont (Merrill) 
Moores. Ilis paternal great grandfather, 
Henry Moores, of South Carolina, enlisted in 
the Artillery of the Continental army and 
served through the war, gaining the rank of 
First Lieutenant. For his services as a Revo¬ 
lutionary soldier he was granted 1000 acres of 
land in Madison, Kentucky, and located on it, 
but after several years found the soil so poor 
that he returned to South Carolina, His son, 
Isaac R. Moores, was born in Kentucky and 
grew up on the frontier, removing in about 
1825 to Vermillion County, Illinois. In the 
Black Hawk War of 1882, Isaac R. Moores was 
commissioned a Colonel in the Fourth Illinois 
Regiment, which was in the brigade in which 
Abraham Lincoln served as Captain. Colonel 
Moores was postmaster of Danville, Illinois. 
In 1852 he crossed the plains to Oregon where 
he was elected to the First Constitutional Con¬ 
vention and later to the State Senate. 

Charles Washington Moores, Sr., was born 
in Vermillion County, Illinois, November 2, 
1828. After graduating from Wabash Col¬ 
lege in 1852 he came to Indianapolis to teach 
in the State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb 
and later became associated with his brother- 
in-law, Colonel Samuel Merrill, in a book and 
publishing business, which has since become 
the Bobbs-Merrill Company. He died in the 
Civil War at Stevenson, Alabama, in 1864. 

The early education of Charles W. Moores, 
of this review, was obtained in the public 
schools of the city of his birth, after which he 
attended Wabash College, from which he grad¬ 
uated in 1882 with the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts and from which he has since received, in 
1885, the degree of Master of Arts and, in 1912, 
the degree of Doctor of Letters. In 1883, Mr. 
Moores graduated from the Central Paw School 
in Indianapolis and immediately thereafter en¬ 
tered the practice of his profession, becoming a 
member of the present partnership in 1888. 


In addition to the practice of law he has de¬ 
voted some time to historical, educational and 
literary work and has contributed much toward 
making the study of history popular in the pub¬ 
lic schools of this state. From 1900 to 1909 he 
was a member of tlie Board of School Commis¬ 
sioners, and from 1903 to 1908 vice-president 
and 1908-9 president of that board; from 1903 
to 1909 a director of Butler College; in 1909 
and since 1918 a director of the Indianapolis 
Art Association; from 1915 to the present writ¬ 
ing a member of the Indiana Historical Com¬ 
mission, and of the Indiana Historical Society, 
of which since 1921 he has been the president; 
a member of the American Historical Associa¬ 
tion and the Indianapolis, Indiana State, and 
American Bar Associations. He was president 
of the Indianapolis Bar Association in 1914. 
He Avas one of the organizing members of the 
American Law Institute. He is a member of 
the Phi Beta Kappa honorary and Sigma Chi 
college fraternities and of the University; In¬ 
dianapolis Literary and Contemporary Clubs 
of this city. Since 1888 Mr. Moores has also 
been United States Commissioner for the Dis¬ 
trict of Indiana. 

As an author, Mr. Moores has contributed 
to the publication of “Indiana Criminal Law,” 
1893; “Caleb Mills and Indiana School Sys¬ 
tem,” 1905; “Year Book of the Sons of the 
American Revolution,” 1897 and 1908; “A 
Life of Abraham Lincoln for Boys and Girls,” 
1909; “Story of Christopher Columbus,” 1912; 
“Lincoln Selections,” 1913; and “History of 
Indiana for Boys and Girls,” 1916. He has also 
contributed to the American and English En¬ 
cyclopedia of Law, first and second editions, 
and to various magazines. Since 1896 Mr. 
Moores has been a lecturer at the Indiana Law 
School and since 1920 a special lecturer on 
Constitutional Law in the Indiana University 
School of Law. 

The marriage of Mr. Moores to Miss Eliza¬ 
beth Nichols occurred at Philadelphia, Penn¬ 
sylvania. October 5, 1896. Mr. and Mrs. 
Moores reside at 1918 North Pennsylvania 
Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Bretsman 

J. EDWARD MORRIS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


J. EDWARD MORRIS 

L IKE many other prominent Indianapolis men, J. Edward Morris, president of 
the Washington Bank and Trust Company, was “born and reared on tlie 
farm,’ the tarm being near Broad Ripple, and the date of his birth February 12, 
1870. TIis father is Hilary Morris, and his mother Let it ia (Kirkpatrick) Morris. 

After completing his education, Mr. Morris had five years’ experience teach¬ 
ing in the Marion County public schools, but decided to abandon that career and 
became employed bv the Central Union Telephone Company, now known as the 
Indiana Bell Telephone Company. For four years he remained with the tele¬ 
phone company, first in Indianapolis, then at Shelbyville, Indiana, and then at 
Oklahoma City and Enid, Oklahoma. 11 is connection in the two last mentioned 
cities was with the Pioneer Telephone and Telegraph Company, another subsid¬ 
iary of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. 

At the conclusion of this service, however, the career of the subject of this 
sketch took another turn, for he embarked in the real estate business, operating 
independently in the promotion and sale of agricultural and timber lands in 
the Southwest. In 11)10, Mr. Morris formed a real estate connection with the old 
Marion Trust Company, which was later absorbed in what is now known as the 
Fletcher Savings and Trust Company. 

Real estate and its close associate, banking, proved to be the line of endeavor 
in which Mr. Morris was to achieve his greatest success. In 1014 he was chair¬ 
man of a committee of Indianapolis real estate men who organized the Indiana 
Real Estate Association, which organization he served as its first president and 
over which he presided at i 1 s two first state conventions. From 1915 to 1918 he 
represented the Indianapolis Real Estate Board as a member of the executive 
committee of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. In 1917 he was 
elected president of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, in 1918 became presi¬ 
dent of the Washington Bank and Trust Company, and in 1920 became presi¬ 
dent of the Washington Company; the two latter positions he now holds. 

During the war, Mr. Morris served on many important committees and as a 
colonel in all the Liberty Loan drives. lie also worked tirelessly in the interests 
of the War Chest and the Community Chest. 

For many years he has occupied important positions in the Methodist Epis¬ 
copal church in this city and state. He is now a member of the board of trustees 
of the Broadway M. E. Church. 

In 1921 be was elected a director for three years of the Indianapolis Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce, and in December, 1922, was elected treasurer of the organiza¬ 
tion to serve during the year 1923. lie was one of the group of fifty who first 
met together to organize the new Indianapolis Athletic Club. 

On August 11. 1903, Mr. Morris married Miss Isa Hill. Their home is 4350 
College Avenue. Their daughters are Asberene and Isabel. 

Mr. Morris is a member of the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Scottish 
Rite Indianapolis Athletic Cub, Kiwanis Club, Columbia Club, Chamber of 
Commerce, Indianapolis Real Estate Board, and Iloosier Motor Club. 


459 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



CHARLES 0 BRIEN MURPHY 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CHARLES O’BRIEN MURPHY 

pHARLES O’BRIEN MURPHY, vice-president and general 
manager of the Merchants Heat and Light Company and an 
executive in other electric corporations, was born in Ireland on 
February 6, 1877, son of Charles O’Brien and Mary (Johnson) 
Murphy. His father, a barrister, is still living in Dublin, Ireland, 
and is a member of the Royal Dublin Society and the Irish Bar 
Association. 

Educated at Belvedere College, Dublin, Ireland, in 1891 and 
1892, and after completing his course of study came to America, 
where he entered St. Francis Xavier’s College in New York in 
1893 and 1894. His business training came in the offices of W. II. 
Granbery & Company, Street & Norton, and E. Clarence Jones & 
Company, all New York Stock Exchange houses, from 1898 until 
1905. In 1905 he became a member of the New York Consolidated 
Stock Exchange and in a few months went to San Francisco, 
California, arriving just before the fire and earthquake in 1906. 

For two years after the earthquake and fire he was purchas¬ 
ing agent with a gold dredging company in the Sacramento Valley. 
In 1910 he became associated with Gavin McNab and W. S. Tevis 
of San Francisco in electric light and power development in 
California, and until 1916 was vice-president and general manager 
of the Consumers Light and Power Company. A year later Mr. 
Murphy went to Grand Rapids, Michigan, as assistant manager 
of the American Public Utilities Company, which is the owner of 
the Merchants Heat and Light Company, of this city, and other 
electric properties. In 1918, he was appointed vice-president and 
general manager of the Merchants Heat and Light Company. He 
is also vice-president and general manager of the Central Indiana 
Power Company and the Wabash Valley Electric Company. 

Mr. Murphy married Miss Marie Hildegarde Jansen, of San 
Francisco, California, on April 28,1906. They have three children: 
Miss Marie Elene, Charles O’Brien, Jr., and Warren Xavier, all 
born in California. The family home is at 115 South Fall Creek 
Boulevard. 


461 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 



HON. HARRY S. NEW 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. HARRY STEWART NEW 


H ON. HARRY STEAVART NEAV, Post¬ 
master General of the United States and 
former United States Senator from Indiana 
was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, December 
31, 1858, the son of John C. and Melissa B. 
(Beeler) New. Uis forbears were of Revolu¬ 
tionary stock and played an important part in 
the early history of the United States. Jethro 
New, his great grandfather, was a soldier in 
the Continental Army for American Independ¬ 
ence, having been a soldier in the Second Del¬ 
aware Regiment. Tie came to Indiana about 
1808 and settled near Madison, later removing 
to Yernon, where he died and is buried. Jethro 
New’s son, Robert A., was the first Secretary 
of State, having been elected by the legislature 
with Jonathan Jennings when the State was 
admitted to the Union in 1816. Another of 
Jethro’s sons, John Bone New, was an early 
Christian circuit minister in southern Indiana 
and is still remembered by many of the older 
residents of that region. John C. New, son of 
John B., was born at Vernon, educated at 
Bethany College, served as Quartermaster 
General of the State of Indiana during the 
Civil AVar, was Treasurer of the United States 
under Grant in 1875-6, Assistant Secretary of 
the Treasury during the Arthur administra¬ 
tion, and Consul-General at London during 
the administration of President Harrison, 
whose intimate friend he Avas. 

Postmaster General New, of this sketch, 
Avas educated in the Indianapolis public 
schools and at Butler University, where he Avas 
a member of the Sigma Chi college fraternity. 
In February 1878 Air. NeAV entered the service 
of the Indianapolis Journal as a police reporter 
and for the next quarter of a century Avorked 
with that paper, which he and his father after- 
Avard jointly OAvned, occupying practically 
every desk in it. AVliile connected with the 
Journal he was intimately associated with 
James AVhitcomb Riley, printing for the first 
time much of the verse that makes Riley’s 
name immortal. 

He Avas elected State Senator from Marion 
County in 1896 and served until 1900. During 
the Avar with Spain he Amlunteered and Avas ap¬ 


pointed a Captain and Assistant Adjutant of 
V olunteers. 

For some years Senator NeAv Avas active in 
business and was president of the Bedford 
Stone and Construction Company until 1916, 
Avhen he was elected United States Senator, 
taking office March 4, 1917. In less than 
thirty days the United States officially de¬ 
clared war upon Germany and the Central 
Powers. By reason of his membership on the 
Senate Committee on Military Affairs, Senator 
NeAv carried a very heaA r y responsibility for the 
deA'elopment of the military plans of the United 
States and worked untiringly at this import¬ 
ant task. Shortly after, he became a member 
of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 
which Committee had for consideration and 
action the text of the League of Nations com¬ 
pact. As a member of this Committee, Sen¬ 
ator Noav stood firm against the alienation of 
any of the soy ereignty, rights and powers from 
the United States to the government of the 
League of Nations. It is the Avriter’s belief 
that this is Senator NeAv’s greatest service and 
one Avhich future generations will proclaim as 
equal to the service performed by the early 
founders of the United States of America. His 
position Avas that the United States should help 
in the rehabilitation of Europe, but that the 
independence, individuality and sovereignty of 
the United States should be maintained 
inviolate. 

Senator NeAv performed important func¬ 
tions from the close of the war in connection 
Avith the serious reconstruction problems which 
confronted Congress. His term expired March 
3, 1923, at which time the late President Hard¬ 
ing appointed him Postmaster General of the 
United States, which position he uoav holds. 

Senator NeAA^ has a state-wide reputation as 
a splendid business man, a capable neAvspaper 
editor and an active, enthusiastic Republican, 
having served as a member of the Republican 
National Committee from 1900 to 1912 and as 
National Chairman in 1907 and 1908. He is a 
member of the Central Christian Church of In¬ 
dianapolis. His career has been one of extreme 
activity and one which has brought credit to 
himself, his friends, and his State. 


463 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



DR. JOHN RAY NEWCOMB 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. JOHN RAY NEWCOMB 

JOHN RAY NEWCOMB, M. B., son of Horatio C. and Kate 
) ( Kay) Newcomb, was born in Indianapolis in 1880. His father 
was born in Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana, and his mother 
in Indianapolis, being a daughter of the late Colonel John M. Ray 
who was a distinguished member of the Indianapolis bar and also 
a prominent banker of the capital city. Horatio Cooley Newcomb, 
whose death occurred in Indianapolis August 16, 1918, bore the 
full patronymic of his honored father, Judge Horatio Cooley New¬ 
comb, Sr., who was a pioneer of Indiana and a man of prominence 
and influence. 

Hr. N ewcomb, of this review, was reared to manhood in the 
city of his birth and in the public schools of Indianapolis obtained 
his early education, which included a course in the high school 
from which he graduated in 1898. He then completed a special 
or elective course at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, and 
after leaving this institution began the work of preparing himself 
for his chosen profession. He was matriculated in the Indiana 
Medical College at Indianapolis and from that institution was 
graduated in 1904, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He 
initiated the practice of his profession in this city but soon deter¬ 
mined to avail himself of further technical experience, for the pur¬ 
pose of fortifying himself for the special line of practice in which 
he has since gained a position of marked achievement. He there¬ 
fore, went to New York City where he completed an effective post 
graduate course in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in 
1905-6. He then became house surgeon of St. Bartholomew’s Hos¬ 
pital, in New York City, retaining this position in which he gained 
valuable clinical experience, until 1907, when he returned to In¬ 
dianapolis, where he has since given his professional attention to 
the diseases and malformations of the eye. He is recognized as a 
skillful surgeon in his chosen field of practice and also as an 
autliorative diagnostician in the same line. 

Following the declaration of war between the United States 
and Germany, Dr. 'N'ewcomb became one of the original staff 
members of Lilly Base Hospital, which later became United 
States Base Hospital No. 32. Later, however, he was transferred 
to Washington, D. C., to serve in an executive capacity. 

Dr. Newcomb is a member of the Indianapolis Medical So¬ 
ciety, the Indianapolis Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Society, the 
Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Asso¬ 
ciation. He is also a member of the Indianapolis Country Club. 

The marriage of Dr. Newcomb to Miss Mary L. Masters took 
place at Jacksonville. Illinois, April 11, 1912. There are two chil¬ 
dren—a son, John Ray, Jr., and an infant daughter, Phyllis 
Masters. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



DR. T. B. NOBLE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


THOMAS BENJAMIN NOBLE, M. D. 

"THOMAS BENJAMIN NOBLE, M. D., was born at Green¬ 
wood, Indiana, May 25, 1867, son of Dr. Thomas Benjamin 
and Margaret A. (Wishard) Noble. His father, whose death oc¬ 
curred at Greenwood, Indiana, March 6, 1907, was born in Ken¬ 
tucky, of English ancestry, but removed to Johnson County in 
the early eighties where he was regarded as one of the substantial 
citizens and snccessfnl physicians of the county. 

Dr. Noble, of this sketch, obtained his early education in the 
public schools of Greenwood, after which he attended Franklin 
College at Franklin, Indiana, and Wabash College at Crawfords- 
ville, Indiana, from which latter institution he graduated in 1890 
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Following this academic 
instruction lie matriculated at Miami College, Cincinnati, Ohio, 
and from that institution graduated in 1893 with the degree of 
Doctor of Medicine. 

Almost immediately following his graduation from medical 
college, Dr. Noble came to Indianapolis and in this city he has 
continuously followed the practice of his profession, although dur¬ 
ing the last twenty-five years of this time he has confined his work 
exclusively to that of consultation and surgery, in which he has 
achieved a place of marked distinction among the medical men 
of achievement of the Capital City. 

Dr. Noble, who, in the Masonic fraternity, has been honored 
by election to the Thirty-third degree, is a member of Oriental 
Lodge, No. 500, F. & A. M., the Scottish Rite and Murat Temple of 
the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Columbia Club, 
the Indianapolis Medical Society, Indiana State Medical Society 
and American Medical Association and is a Fellow of the Ameri¬ 
can Association of Abdominal Surgeons, a Fellow of the American 
College of Surgeons, and originator of many surgical operations 
and surgical instruments. 

The marriage of Dr. Noble to Miss Florence E. Robb took 
place at Crawfordsville, Indiana, on October 2, 1890. There are 
two children, Mrs. Maurice Tibbs, nee Margaret, and Dr. Thomas 
B. Noble, Jr., who is now associated with his father in the practice 
of surgery. 


467 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JAMES W. NOEL 


Photograph hy Moorefield 


468 










INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 


JAMES WILLIAM NOEL 


J AMES WILLIAM NOEL, lawyer, was born in Mel- 
more, Ohio, November 24, 18G7, son of William Per- 
cival and Caroline (Graves) Noel, grandson of Al¬ 
bert Noel, and a descendant of Loftus Noel, a native of 
Gloucester, England, who came to this country in the 
seventeenth century, and was one of the pioneer set¬ 
tlers of Virginia, and whose descendants afterwards re¬ 
moved to the vicinity of Lexington, Kentucky. His 
father served with the 49th Ohio Volunteers during the 
Civil War, after which he conducted a farm in Pulaski 
County, Indiana. The son attended the public schools 
of Star City, Indiana, and by teaching in the district 
school earned money for a college education. 

In 1892 Mr. Noel was graduated at Purdue Univer¬ 
sity with the degree of B. S., having been orator for his 
class and literary society, manager of football and base¬ 
ball teams, and editor of the college paper and biennials. 
He studied law in the office of Byron K. Elliott, of In¬ 
dianapolis, and in the Indiana Law School, where he was 
graduated LL. B. in 1895. He was admitted to the bar 
in the same year, and began practicing in Indianapolis, 
first in partnership with Frank J. Lahr, and, after 1901, 
alone. 

Both as a trial lawyer and a counsellor Mr. Noel built 
up within a short time an extensive general practice and 
von high prestige as a leader of the Indiana bar. 
Among the notable criminal cases into which he has di¬ 
gressed was the trial of officers of the Structural Bridge 
and Iron Workers’ Union for conspiring to transport 
dynamite between states and aiding in the destruction 
of life and property thereby. 

Mr. Noel was appointed by Attorney-General Wicker- 
sham to assist the local district attorney, and, after a 
trial of three months, thirty-eight of the forty defend¬ 
ants were found guilty, including the president of the 
union. The trial, which was held at Indianapolis in 
1912, was one of the most famous in the annals of 
American jurisprudence. 

Because of the knowledge thus acquired, he was re¬ 
tained by Los Angeles County, California, in 1915, to 
conduct the prosecution of Matthew A. Schmidt for 
murder in connection with the dynamiting of the Los 
Angeles Times building. This trial lasted three months, 
resulted in conviction and life sentence, and was one of 
the most dramatic trials recorded. 

In 1903 he conducted a public investigation of the af¬ 
fairs of the city of Indianapolis, which resulted in the 
overthrow of the administration at the coming election, 
and temporarily purged the city of much corruption and 


abuses. He was a member of the commission appointed 
two years later to investigate state affairs and the con¬ 
dition of Indiana insurance companies. Taking the 
initiative, Mr. Noel devoted the larger part of one year 
to the investigations, which resulted in the removal of 
the auditor of state, the secretary of state, and the ad¬ 
jutant-general, and the recovery of hundreds of thou¬ 
sands of dollars to the state treasury, as well as the en¬ 
tire reform of the public business. 

At the end of his work he wrote a report on insurance 
conditions in Indiana, which, as a philosophical treatise 
upon many of the intricate subjects of life insurance, 
attracted wide-spread attention. 

In 1908, under the employment of the Merchants’ As¬ 
sociation of Indianapolis, he directed an investigation of 
the affairs of Marion County. He then induced the 
Merchants’ Association and the commercial bodies of 
the state to unite in a demand for the passage of a law 
providing for uniform accounting and an annual audit 
of all public offices in Indiana, which was done by the 
1909 legislature. This law was largely drafted by Mr. 
Noel and is regarded by economists as a model of its 
kind. 

In polities Mr .Noel is a Republican, and both through 
personal influence and as a campaign speaker he has 
done much to further the party cause in Indiana. In 
1899 he served in the lower house of the state legislature. 
During that session he was the author of a large amount 
of legislation looking to the reorganization of the dif¬ 
ferent institutions of Indianapolis, and was instrumental 
in the election of Albert J. Beveridge to the United 
States Senate. He was also instrumental in the adop¬ 
tion of a street railway franchise of great advantage to 
the city, which in 1917-18 was subject of a noted con¬ 
test in the courts, where as amicus curae he successfully 
resisted repudiation of the franchise by the company. 

Mr. Noel is a trustee of Purdue University and a 
member of the International Tax Association, at the 
meeting of which distinguished body in 1909 he read a 
paper upon “The Taxation of Insurance”; the Indian¬ 
apolis Literary Club, Columbia Club, Indianapolis Ath¬ 
letic Club, and Country Club, Chamber of Commerce of 
Indianapolis, and the Board of Trade. His religious 
affiliation is with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

He was twice married: (1) June 25, 1895 to Cornelia 
Horton, daughter of Cornelius Humphreys, of Patriot, 
Indiana, who died September 11, 1895; (2) June 29, 
1899, to Anne Madison, daughter of John O. Sloan, a 
prominent business man of Cincinnati, Ohio. They have 
no children. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


MEREDITH NICHOLSON 


T IIE casual visitor to any city customarily 
receives his impressions from the physical 
aspect presented to view: the streets, the stores, 
the office buildings, the public edifices, the 
parks and homes. If, collectively, they seem 
modern and w r ell planned; if the surface ap¬ 
pearance conveys the idea of beauty; if, in 
short, the cumulative effect is one of comfort 
and well being, the visitor will more than likely 
conclude that he has found an excellent place 
in Avhich to live. Then, too, the person who 
periodically returns gradually becomes ac¬ 
quainted with the citizens, and his first impres¬ 
sions are mellowed, or at least influenced, by 
the people he knows. In some instances the 
city itself has already developed an individ¬ 
uality of its own so strong that the traveler, 
although unfamiliar with its outward peculiar¬ 
ities, knows something of its inner atmosphere, 
lie is cognizant of the fact that it is a manu¬ 
facturing center, a residence town, or a placid 
hamlet, each district, not because of its size, 
but because men in them have molded the 
characteristics by which they are known. 

Indiana, by reason of its numerous authors, 
is spoken of as a state where literature is held 
in special honor, and Indianapolis has been 
responsible for more than a fair share of the 
glory heaped upon Iloosier writers. Among 
the living writers who have carried on this 
tradition is Meredith Nicholson, one of the 
better known literateurs, wudely read for his 
entertaining novels and short stories. lie w r as 
born December 9, 1866, in Crawfordsville, Indi¬ 
ana, a son of Edward Willis and Emily (Mere¬ 
dith) Nicholson. He acquired his early educa¬ 
tion in the public schools of Indianapolis, later 
receiving an honorary degree of A. M. from 
Butler and Litt. D. from AVabash. At the expi¬ 
ration of his school days he learned stenog¬ 
raphy, and Avas employed in the Iuav offices of 
John T. Dye and William and LeAv Wallace. 
He began newspaper work on the old Indian¬ 
apolis Sentinel, later transferring to the Indi¬ 
anapolis NeAvs, Avhere he Avas employed for ten 
years. In 1898 he seiwed as auditor and treas¬ 


urer of a coal mining company in Denver, Col¬ 
orado, remaining in the West until 1901. He 
returned to Indianapolis, and since then has 
spent his time in writing. On June 16, 1896, 
he married Eugenie Kountze at Omaha, Ne¬ 
braska. There are three children: Elizabeth 
I\., iioav Airs. Benjamin F. Claypool; Meredith, 
Jr., and Charles Lionel. 

Air. Nicholson’s long list of books includes 
history, poetry, novels, short stories and essays. 
He is the author of “The Iloosiers,” an histor¬ 
ical study of Indiana; “The Valiev of Democ¬ 
racy,” a series of papers on the Aliddle West 
and its relation to the national life; and tAvo 
volumes of social, literary and political essays, 
“A Provincial American” and “The Alan in 
the Street.” His noA r els are: “The Main 
Chance,” “Zelda Dameron,” “The House of a 
Thousand Candles,” “The Port of Alissing 
Alen,” “Rosalind at Red Gate,” “The Little 
Brown Jug at Kildare,” “The Lords of High 
Decision,” “The Siege of the Seven Suiters,” 
“A Iloosier Chronicle,” “Otherwise Phvllis,” 
“The Poet,” “The Proof of the Pudding,”* 
“The Aladness of Alay,” “A Reversible Santa 
Claus,” “Lady Larkspur,” “Blacksheep! 
Blacksheep !” and “Broken Barriers.” There 
is also a collection of his short stories under 
the title, “Best Laid Schemes.” 

Air. Nicholson has delWered many addresses 
on political and literary subjects. He is an 
honorary member of the AVabash College chap¬ 
ter Phi Beta Kappa, and a member of the Phi 
Gamma Delta fraternity. Ilis clubs include the 
Players and the Authors of NeAv York. He 
belongs to the National Institute of Arts and 
Letters, the Drama League of America, the In¬ 
diana Society of the Sons of the Revolution, 
the Art Association of Indianapolis, the Indi¬ 
anapolis Literary Club, the Contemporary Club, 
the Dramatic Club, the Country Club of Indi¬ 
anapolis, the AVoodstock Country Club, the 
University Club, the Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, the Rotary Club, and the military order 
of the Loyal Legion. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



R. P. OBLINGER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ROBERT P. OBLINGER 

D OBERT P. OBLINGER, president of the Indianapolis Elec- 
-*■ ^ trie Supply Company and associated companies, was born at 
Perrvsburg, Ohio, on January 10, 1870, son of F. J. Oblinger and 
Mary Louise Oblinger. 

He entered business life as an office bov with the Milburn 
Wa gon ( ompany of Toledo, Ohio, in 1887. lie rose to the post ol 
cashier of the company and then resigned to become associated 
with the F. Bissell Company, Toledo, Ohio, electrical supply job¬ 
bers and contractors. From the Bissell organization he went to 
the Nagel Electric Company and later to the Pope Motor Car 
Company, both companies being in Toledo. 

Mr. Oblinger came to Indianapolis in 1908 to be associated 
with the American Motor Car Company, and with the exception of 
two years, during which he owned and managed a chain of re¬ 
staurants, was with this motor car company until 1910. In 1910 
he and Mr. H. E. Rasmussen founded the Indianapolis Electric 
Supply Company, 122 South Meridian Street, he becoming presi¬ 
dent of the company. In 1919 he established the South Bend 
Electric Supply Company at South Bend, Indiana, and two years 
later added a third company, the Crescent City Electric Company 
at Evansville, Indiana. 

During his residence in Indianapolis, Mr. Oblinger has been 
devoted to all movements which mean a bigger and better Indi¬ 
anapolis. Known among his associates and friends as “Bob,” he 
always is one of the leaders in civic activities. During the war 
he devoted a large part of his time to selling Liberty Bonds. As 
a member of the Indiana State Militia he went to the Calumet 
region during the steel strike of 1919. 

Mr. Oblinger is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of 
Commerce, the Iviwanis Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, and 
Iloosier Athletic Club. 

He married Miss Mary C. Noteman at Toledo, Ohio, on 
August II, 1895. They have three daughters—Mildred M., Dor¬ 
othy M., and Clara L. The family home is at 3623 North Pennsyl¬ 
vania Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



GEORGE S. OLIVE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GEORGE SCOTT OLIVE 


r T' , EACHER, newspaper mam mine superintendent, and public 
-*• accountant are a few of the activities in the career of George 
Scott Olive, born in Lebanon, Indiana, June 4, 1881, son of David 
H. and Caroline (Lawrence) Olive. 


Mr. Olive received liis early education in Lebanon and Indi¬ 
anapolis, graduating from the Manual Training High School in 
1899. In 1903 he emerged from Harvard University with an A. 
B. degree, having finished the necessary work in 1902. 


After finishing his college course lie returned to his home 
town, and taught science and mathematics in the Lebanon High 
School for a year, after which he came to Indianapolis and entered 
the office of the Parrv Manufacturing Company, remaining until 
July, 1904. 


From August of that year until December, 1906, he was in 
charge of Mica and Kaolin mines in western North Carolina, and 
during the same year was editor of a newspaper at Rutherfordton, 
North Carolina. 


Forsaking newspaper work, he returned to Indianapolis in 
1907, and for a year engaged in engineering and construction work 
with the Indianapolis Water Company, and from 1909 until 1912 
was auditor for the company. 

Tn January, 1913, he entered a firm of public accountants, a 
profession that he has since made his own. From November, 1913, 
to March, 1917, he was state manager for Baker, Vawter & Wolf, 
and when he severed his connection with the firm it was to engage 
in the practice of public accountancy for himself in the Hume- 
Mansur Building. 

On June 3,1909, Mr. Olive married Miss Louise Carpenter, of 
Rutherfordton, North Carolina, the same town in which he had 
acquired his journalistic experience; they live at 3936 Central 
Avenue, and have one son, George Scott Olive, Jr. 

Mr. Olive is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Columbia Club, Kiwanis Club, 
Mystic Tie, No. 398, F. & A. M. ; Scottish Rite, Murat Temple, All 
Souls Unitarian Church, and various professional and civic or¬ 
ganizations. He is a member of the Council of the American In¬ 
stitute of Accountants, the leading organization of his profession. 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Moorefield 

HON. CHARLES J. ORBISON 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. CHARLES J. ORBISON 


C HARLES J. ORBISON, one of the most 
widely known men in the State of Indi¬ 
ana, was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, Sep¬ 
tember 28, 1874, the son of William IT. and 
Mary J. (Meiers) Orbison. 

His early education was secured in the pub¬ 
lic schools of his native city, graduating from 
high school in 1898, after which he entered the 
College of Law at the University of Indian¬ 
apolis and from which he graduated an LL B. 
in 1896. 

Following the completion of his college 
course he immediately began the practice of 
law in Indianapolis. This has continued with¬ 
out interruption to the present time, and with 
such energy and success that Mr. Orbison lias 
come to occupy an unusually enviable position 
in his profession. 

Much of the time Mr. Orbison has practiced 
alone, although he has been associated at vari¬ 
ous periods with many of the leading members 
of the Indiana bar in the conduct of matters of 
more than passing importance. He is now 
senior member of the firm of Orbison & Zechiel. 

Mr. Orbison was for two years, from 1901 
to 1903, General Counsel for the Indiana Anti- 
Saloon League; was from 1910 to 1914 Judge of 
the Marion County Superior Court, Room One; 
was from 1915 to 1919 General Counsel for the 
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World; 
from 1915 to 1917 General Counsel for the In¬ 
diana State Tax Board; from 1915 to 1919 a 
member of the State Board of Charities; and 
from 1919 to 1921 Federal Prohibition Director 
for Indiana. For a number of years Mr. Orbi¬ 
son has represented the London Guarantee and 
Accident Company of Indiana, and is at this 
time General Counsel for the Crescent Life In¬ 
surance Company of this city. 

These are but a few of the many positions 
occupied or organizations and institutions rep¬ 


resented by the subject of this sketch, although 
in passing it is of interest to note that during 
the World War Mr. Orbison was an extremely 
active member of the War Chest Speakers’ Bu¬ 
reau, and that since the conclusion of the war 
he has been a member of the Community Chest 
Speakers’ Bureau. In fact, as a public speaker, 
Mr. Orbison has also achieved wide recognition, 
having talked at various times in many parts 
of the country on the subject of life insurance 
under the auspices of the National Life Under¬ 
writers’ Association, and on the subject of 
truthful advertising under the auspices of the 
Associated Advertising Clubs. 

For many years Mr. Orbison has been act¬ 
ively identified with Masonry. In 1918 he 
was elected Deputy Grand Master of the Grand 
Lodge of Masons and in 1919 became Grand 
Master. In 1921, at Boston, the honorary 33rd 
degree was conferred upon him. 

In addition to these affiliations, Mr. Orbi¬ 
son is a member of Irvington Lodge No. 666, 
F. and A. M., and of all the York and Scottish 
Rite bodies of Masonry at Indianapolis. He is 
a member of the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Improved Order 
of Red Men, and is a Past Exalted Ruler of the 
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks No. 13. 
At this writing he is Chief Rabban of the Murat 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

Mr. Orbison’s club associations include the 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Chamber of 
Commerce, Indianapolis Board of Trade, Cen¬ 
tury Club, Independent Athletic Club, and the 
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, 
being vice-president of the latter for the Sixth 
District, lie is also a member of the Indiana 
and Indianapolis Bar Associations and is an 
elder of the Irvington Presbyterian Church. 

Air. Orbison married Miss Ella Talkenberg, 
April 26, 1900. There are two children—Tel¬ 
ford B. and Robert II. The family resides at 
51 North Irvington Avenue. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



OREN T. OWEN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


OREN T. OWEN 

/AREN T. OWEN, president of the Atlas Sand & Gravel Com- 
^ panv, was born at Mechanicsburg, Ohio, November 30, 1865, 
son of William B. and Sallie (Bond) Owen. At the early age of 
twelve years the lure of the West led the subject of this sketch 
to leave home and go to that country then decidedly undeveloped 
but rich in promise. This was in 1877 and in that Western country 
he remained for a period of fourteen years, five of which were 
served in the regular army. As thrilling as they were varied were 
the experiences encountered during this period of Mr. Owen’s life. 
Not only did he prospect for gold and silver but with a partner he 
was the first person to carry pony express in Wyoming. 

In 1890 Mr. Owen came to Indianapolis and here was em¬ 
ployed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Later he attended the 
Locomotive and Mechanical Engineering School of Scranton, 
Pennsylvania, and then after a number of years as Locomotive 
Engineer, became engaged in construction work. On August 12, 
1912, he organized the Atlas Sand & Gravel Company of which he 
has continuously been president, general manager and treasurer. 
In 1914 he founded and became president of the Mead Construc¬ 
tion Company of which, however, he has since severed his connec¬ 
tion but, which, during his management, assumed responsible part 
in the city elevation work and built the Big Four retaining wall— 
an engineering and construction achievement of more than pass¬ 
ing interest. 

During the World War Mr. Owen proffered his services to 
the Government and was later summoned to report to the railroad 
engineering department of the Army Service, but due to the sign¬ 
ing of the Armistice, active work on his part was prevented. 

Mr. Owen is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis 
Club, Marion Lodge, No. 35, E. & A. M., of which he is a Past 
Master, Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Indianapolis Council, 
of which he is Illustrious Master and of Paper Commanderv, of 
which he is warden. 

The marriage of Mr. Owen to Miss Mary Ringweld occurred 
at Indianapolis, June 5, 1894. There are three children, Lulu, 
William Burl and Walter, the latter being associated with his 
father in business. The family home is at 4115 Rockwood Avenue. 


479 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



DR. LAFAYETTE PAGE 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. LAFAYETTE PAGE 


D R. LAFAYETTE PAGE, specialist in the diseases 
of the ear, nose and throat, was born in Colum¬ 
bia, Kentucky, May 21, 1863, son of Robert 
Page, a former business man of prominence, and Mary 
(Irvine) Page, both born in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

Dr. Page was educated in the public schools of the 
town of his birth and under private tutors, after which 
he pursued a classical course at Columbia Christian Col¬ 
lege and there obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 
During the two years following his college life he taught 
higher mathematics in Kentucky and Texas and then, in 
1885, went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he began the 
study of medicine in the medical department of Louis¬ 
ville University. After taking the first course of lec¬ 
tures at the Louisville institution, however, he came to 
Indianapolis and entered the Indiana Medical College, 
from which he graduated in 1888 with the degree of 
M. D. He was also awarded the Mears Gold Medal as a 
mark of special honor. At the time of his graduation 
from the Indiana Medical College he entered a competi¬ 
tive examination for the position of interne at the City 
Dispensary, in which he was successful, and as a result 
of which he secured the appointment for one year. At 
the close of that period he began the general practice of 
his profession. 

In 1891, after two years of general practice, Dr. Page 
began to devote special attention to the diseases of the 
nose, throat and ear, and later pursued post-graduate 
courses in New York and Vienna, Austria, for the pur¬ 
pose of perfecting himself in the knowledge of path¬ 
ology and the treatment of the diseases selected as liis 
particular work. Since 1891 Dr. Page has given almost 
exclusive attention to the diseases of the nose, throat 
and ear, in which he has gained a wide reputation for 
his skill and success. In 1913 Dr. Page took further 
post-graduate work in Berlin and Vienna. 

At the outbreak of the World War, Dr. Page was ap¬ 
pointed a Captain in the Medical Service and placed in 
charge of the nose, throat and ear department of the 
Lilly Base Hospital, which later became officially known 
as United States Army Base Hospital No. 32. To this 
organization he was attached during the entire period 
of the conflict. He was promoted to the rank of Major 
in October, 1918. 

It is well known that at the time of the introduction 
of poison gases on the part of the enemy, the Allied 
forces were tremendously handicapped by lack of knowl¬ 


edge of adequate treatment for gas burns of the respi¬ 
ratory tract, caused by the inhalation of these poison 
fumes. Dr. Page immediately undertook the develop¬ 
ment of an adequate remedy and as a result of his re¬ 
search and experience, brought about, in a compara¬ 
tively short time, a marked decrease in the serious ef¬ 
fects of gas burns and gas poison. In fact, his dis¬ 
tinguished service in the treatment of gas cases won 
him recognition throughout the French and Allied med¬ 
ical service, as well as in the A. E. F., and it is of 
interest to here note that his treatment of gas burns of 
the respiratory tract was recommended by the Allied 
Gas Service in the official bulletin of April, 1918. 

Dr. Page, until the recent termination of his office, 
served for four years on the Council of the American 
Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, of 
which he remains a Fellow. He is also a Fellow of the 
American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-laryng- 
ology, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a 
member of the American Medical Association, a mem¬ 
ber of the Indiana State Medical Society, the Marion 
County Medical Society, and the Indianapolis Medical 
Society, of which he was president in 1922. He is at 
this time Professor of Oto-laryngology at the Indiana 
School of Medicine at Indianapolis. Before a number 
of these organizations, Dr. Page has read articles which 
have since been widely published as important con¬ 
tributions to the literature of his chosen field of prac¬ 
tice. He has also devised a number of surgical instru¬ 
ments which are in general use. 

The social and literary clubs of Indianapolis of which 
Dr. Page is a member include the Indianapolis Literary 
Club, the Contemporary Club, the Dramatic Club, the 
Woodstock Club, the Highland Golf and Country Club, 
the Indianapolis Athletic Club, and the American 
Legion. 

The marriage of Dr. Page to Miss Marion ILeinly of 
Danville, Illinois, occurred at Geneva, Switzerland, June 
26, 1895. There are three children: Lafayette Page, 
Jr., who served in the Rainbow Division during the 
World War and who is now engaged in business in New 
York; Miss Ruth Marion Page, whose talent as a clas¬ 
sical dancer is widely known; and Irvine Heinly Page, a 
student of medicine. Mrs. Page is at this time pres¬ 
ident of the Ladies ’ Matinee Musicale of Indianapolis. 
She graduated at the Leipsic Conservatory of Music, 
I eipsic, Germany, in 1895, receiving the Schuman prize 
in chamber music. She has played frequently in concert 
and is well known for her musical culture. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



GEORGE W. PANGBORN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GEORGE W. PANGBORN 

EORGE AY PANGBORN, conducting a general insurance 
NJ- agency under the name of George W. Pangborn, was born at 
anI^e v\ York, son of William and Ruany (Gladding) Pang¬ 
born. He was educated in the public schools of the city of his 
birth, after which he engaged in the insurance and banking busi¬ 
ness at Albany for a period of several years. 

Upon the conclusion of this work Mr. Pangborn went to Kan¬ 
sas City, Missouri, and there for two years was associated with the 
Kansas City Times. He then went to Topeka, Kansas, in the 
employe of the passenger department of the Santa Fe Railroad. 
During the next fifteen years he represented the Santa Fe Rail¬ 
road at various points throughout the country, being located at 
Buffalo, New York, as general agent of both the freight and 
passenger departments, when he severed his connection with rail¬ 
road work in 1890. 

From Buffalo, Mr. Pangborn went to Louisville, Kentucky, 
and there took charge of two states for an insurance company but 
after six months at Louisville, came to Indianapolis and in this 
city established a general agency for a number of insurance com¬ 
panies. It is in tliis work that Mr. Pangliorn has been continu¬ 
ously engaged in Indianapolis for the past thirty-two years. 

George AY. Pangborn is general agent of the Ocean Accident 
& Guaranty Corporation (Ltd.) of London, England; general 
agent of the Bankers and Shippers Insurance Company of New 
York; general agent of the Pacific Fire Insurance Company of 
New York; general agent of the New Jersey Insurance Company 
of New Jersey; general agent of the United States Lloyds, Inc., 
of New York; district agent of the National Surety Company of 
New York; agent of the Alliance Insurance Company of Philadel¬ 
phia; agent of the Delaware Underwriters Insurance Company of 
Philadelphia, and agent of the London Assurance Company of 
London. 

Mr. Pangborn is a member of the Board of Trustees of the 
Insurance Federation of America, Inc., which includes many men 
of international reputation in the insurance business and a mem¬ 
ber of the Insurance Federation of Indiana, of which he was presi¬ 
dent in 1915 and of which he is now vice-president. In addition to 
these business affiliations Air. Pangborn is a member of the High¬ 
land Golf and Country Club, Columbia Club, Athenaeum, and is a 
Scottish Rite Mason. 

The marriage of Air. Pangborn to Aliss Clara B. Berrvhill 
occurred at Madison, Indiana, December 17, 1881. Airs. Pang¬ 
born died September 23, 1919. There are two children, Mark AY, 
who is associated with his father in business, and Airs. Harry 
Buckley, nee Frances T. Air. Pangborn resides at 2101 North 
Pennsylvania Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



DR. HUGO 0. PANTZER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. HUGO OTTO PANTZER 

D r. HUGO OTTO PANTZER, an Indianapolis physician and surgeon of 
high standing, was born at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, June 9, 1858. For 
two years he attended the Lutheran and public schools of the city of his birth, 
but at the age of fifteen years entered the government drafting office at Rock 
Island, Illinois. Later he became a machine hand on a Mississippi sounding 
boat. 

Through hard saving from his employment and earnest economy of living 
lie became able to take a business course at the Bryant and Stratton Business 
College at Davenport, Iowa, from which he graduated in 1874. Thus is summed 
up the early determination of the subject of this sketch to obtain an education. 

To further his literary education Dr. Pantzer attended three courses at the 
German-English Academy of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, upon the conclusion of 
which he accepted a position as bookkeeper. During this work, however, he 
devoted his evenings to gymnastics in which he became so much interested, 
both as a science and as a means of physical development, that he became a 
pupil in the Gymnastic Teachers’ Seminary of the North American Tuererbund 
at Milwaukee. Following bis graduation from this institution, after a course 
of twelve months, he taught gymnastics for five years during which time he 
also studied medicine and was a teacher at the Turnvereins of Sheboygan and 
Plymouth, Wisconsin, and Indianapolis, Indiana, as well as a private tutor in 
the family of a mining superintendent in Southwestern Utah. 

Upon coming to Indianapolis, Dr. Pantzer studied medicine under Drs. 
William B. Fletcher and E. F. Hodges and then attended the Indiana Medical 
College from which he graduated in 1881. Through a competitive examination 
he then held a position for one year in the City Dispensary and in the spring of 
1892 engaged in obstetrical and gynecological practice, having in the modern 
conduct of this specialty established a sanitarium of the most advanced type. 

For three and one-half years Dr. Pantzer studied in world-famed univer¬ 
sities under masters of surgery and clinical medicine. Altogether he has made 
three trips to Europe studying in Germany, Vienna, London and Paris. These 
trips have extended into Hungary, Switzerland and Italy and upon one occa¬ 
sion he pursued two courses at Munich, where he served as assistant at the Sur¬ 
gical Clinical Institute of Professor von Nussbaum. 

In addition to the above Dr. Pantzer has also attended bacteriological 
courses at Koch’s Institute, Berlin; was practicant at the obstetrical wards of 
the Allgemeine Krankenhaus at Vienna and completed many other courses in 
medical and surgery specialties under expert teachers of renown. 

Dr. Pantzer is a member of the Marion County Medical Society, Indiana 
State Medical Society and an ex-president of the Indianapolis Surgical Society. 
He is also a member of the American Medical Association and the International 
Medical Congress. 

In addition to possessing recognition in his specialties. Dr. Pantzer has a 
substantial reputation as a writer on the subjects of which he has made such 
profound study. 

He is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Murat Temple 
of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the 
Athenaeum, the Little Theatre Society of Indiana, the Art Association of In¬ 
dianapolis, the Academy of Music and the Woodstock Club. 

The marriage of Dr. Pantzer to Miss Emmy Schmidt, of West Plialis, 
Germany, occurred in 1891. The family home is at 717 Middle Drive Woodruff 
Place. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



DR. HARRY F. PARR 


Photograph by Moorcfielu 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. HARRY FULTON PARR 

F)R HARRY FULTON PARR, son of Alfred David and 

Amanda (Burroughs) Parr, was born on a farm in Boone 
County, Indiana, December 27, 1880. His preliminary education 
was obtained in the public schools of Boone and Hamilton Coun¬ 
ties, after which he attended the High Schools and the old Quaker 
Academy at Westfield, Indiana, finishing in 1898. 

Upon the completion of this work, Dr. Parr studied medicine 
and pliaramacy for a period of approximately three years, part 

of which time he was actively engaged as a pharmacist. He then 
came to Indianapolis and here entered the Indiana Dental Col¬ 
lege, from which he graduated in 1905, with the degree of Doctor 
of Dentistry. 

Before beginning the general practice of dentistry, Dr. Parr 
went to New York, Philadelphia and Chicago to pursue special 
work in his profession and then for a period of one year practiced 
dentistry in Mexico, returning to the states in 1907 where he has 
since resided and engaged in the practice of dentistry. 

Dr. Parr is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State and 
American Dental Association, the Psi Omega dental fraternity, 
Indianapolis Rotary Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Highland 
Golf and Country Club, and the Little Theatre Society. In the 
Masonic fraternity he is identified with Pentalpha Lodge, No. 
561, F. & A. M., Keystone Chapter, Raper Commandry and Murat 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

The marriage of Dr. Parr to Miss Anna Mae Reslar took 
place in Indianapolis, November 23, 1907. Dr. and Mrs. Parr 
reside at 2709 North Pennsylvania Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



GAVIN L. PAYNE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GAVIN L. PAYNE 



AVIN L. PAYNE established the investment hanking house of which he is 


the head on the day the great panic of 1907 broke upon the country. Mr. 
Payne and his house have been the leaders in the financing of the gas business 
in Tndianpolis, Mr. Payne having been one of the syndicate managers, with the 
late Messrs. V. T. Malott and L. C. Boyd, in acquiring the Indianapolis gas prop¬ 
erty and leasing it to the Citizens Gas Company. Mr. Payne originated the 
plan of real estate preferred stocks under which so many prominent buildings in 
Indianapolis have been erected, the first issue embracing these popular features 
having been placed on the Century building. Among the large buildings in the 
city financed by this house are the National City Bank building, the Circle 
Theatre, the original Severin hotel and the original Lincoln. 

Mr. Payne was born September 3, 1869 in Jefferson county, just north of 
Madison, and came to Indianapolis as an infant. His grandfather located in 
Madison in the ’30s and was the pioneer manufacturer in Indiana of the fan 
mills for cleaning wheat. The Payne family is an old Cape Cod family. Mr. 
Payne’s maternal grandfather, Horatio Byfield, built the first plow used on the 
roads in Indiana. He settled in Jefferson county before Indiana was a state. 

In his earlier manhood, Mr. Payne was a journalist, serving in an editorial 
capacity on the old Indianapolis Journal, The Press, and on Memphis, Louisville 
and New Orleans papers. He was a war correspondent during the Spanish 
American war. Prior to establishing his own business he had been the first 
secretary and afterwards president of the Security Trust Company. 

Mr. Payne commanded Battery A of Indianapolis on the Mexican Border 
during the Pancho Villa uprising in 1916. He was colonel of the Second Indi¬ 
ana Field Artillery in 1917-18. This organization, although inspected and passed 
by the U. S. Army officers was unable to get into the Federal service on ac¬ 
count of the operation of the conscript law shutting out acceptance of further 
national guard units. Governor Goodrich selected Mr. Payne to head a com¬ 
mittee to arrange the administration of the conscript law in this city, when the 
act first became a law. During the latter part of the war period, Mr. Payne was 
selected by the American Red Cross as field director of the military branch of 
their work in Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with headquarters at Camp 
Las Casas, under General Chrisman. 

A term in the city council is the only political office ever held by Mr. Payne. 
He is a member of the Columbia, the Athletic and several other clubs; a member 
of the Scottish Rite and the Military Order of Foreign Wars. He is also a trus¬ 
tee of the Second Presbyterian church. Mr. Payne’s first wife Avas Miss Bertha 
Falmley, by whom he has tAVO children, Ada and Frederick. His second mar¬ 
riage to Miss Carolyn Conde. The Payne home is at 2135 North Alabama 
street. 


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MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CHARLES C. PERRY 


OME newsboys have turned out to be Presidents of the United States while 



others have humbly submitted to the strenuously difficult task of guiding 
the destinies of a multi-million dollar corporation. Into this latter group falls 
Mr. Perry, a man whose tireless spirit of conscientious endeavor, unswerving 
devotion, business integrity and progressive insight have culminated in the 
presidency of one of Indiana’s most pretentious incorporated bodies—-The In¬ 
dianapolis Light and Heat Company. 

Mr. Perry is in no wise a man of hobbies. In his beautiful vacation home 
on Lake Maxinkuckee, Mr. Perry finds his recreational delights. It is known, 
however, that a vast portion of his happiness comes from his business activities. 
This happiness is ever revealed in his benignant attitude toward employees. In 
most commanding moments Mr. Perry’s sturdiness of authority is quite bereft 
of harshness. 

He was born in Richmond, Indiana, Wayne County, December 15, 1857, 
the son of Joseph J. and Ruth (Moffett) Perry. On the paternal side Mr. 
Perry’s ancestors were English, on the maternal side, Quaker-English. 

While acquiring his education in the public schools and later at Earlham 
College, Mr. Perry held various positions. In boyhood days he was a messenger 
boy for the P., C., C. & St. L., now a branch of the Pennsylvania System. He 
learned telegraphy and worked his way to the position of manager of the Rich¬ 
mond exchange of the Central Union Telephone Company and remained in this 
position for four years, after which, for two years, he was district superin¬ 
tendent of the Northern Indiana and Ohio Telephone Company with head¬ 
quarters at Fort Wayne. 

In 1886 Mr. Perry came to Indianapolis. For a short time he was con¬ 
nected with the Jenny Electric Company and in 1888 he was a central figure 
in starting the Marmon-Perry Light Company. From that organization came 
the Indianapolis Light and Power Company, which in 1905 changed its name to 
the Indianapolis Light and Ileat Company. 

In 1900 Mr. Perry married Miss Capatolia Adams. There is a daughter, 
Ruth, and two sons, Norman A. and James A. Norman is associated in busi¬ 
ness with his father and James is located in New York City. 

It might be said that Mr. Perry’s career has been an electrified one. Dur¬ 
ing the change from a youngster selling papers to the position of chief execu¬ 
tive for the company with which he now is identified, he has moved along 
stepping stones that in every instance indicate progress in electrical achieve¬ 
ment. Mr. Perry is one of those Indianapolis citizens by whose work in life the 
city has benefited. In his prosperity there may be just satisfaction—for he has 
given more than he has taken. 

Mr. Perry resides at 3145 North Meridian Street. He is a member of the 
Columbia Club, Chamber of Commerce, a thirty-second degree Mason and is a 
governor of the Board of Trade. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



EDWARD E. PETRI 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDWARD E. PETRI 

t7 DWARD E. PETRI, president of the company bearing his 
^ name—dealers in pearls and precious stones and platinum 
creations—was born at Paris, France, November 17, 1881, son of 
Edward E. and Leopoldine (Rape). His early education was 
obtained in the citv of his birth, after which he attended Lvcee 
Charlemagne from which he graduated in 1898. 

Following this he devoted a period of time to the study of 
watchmaking and in his adjusting course graduated with honor, 
obtaining a prize on a timepiece at the Few Observatory of Lon¬ 
don, England. This last mentioned course was undertaken in view 
of his intention to become associated with his father, who was a 
watch manufacturer in Switzerland, with main offices in Paris, 
and a recognized authority in the judging of precious stones and 
pearls. In fact, it was under his father that Air. Petri of this 
sketch received much of his early education and instruction in the 
science devoted to the study of precious stones. 

At the end of this apprenticeship, however, Air. Petri came 
to the United States, for the purpose of acquainting himself with 
American business methods and to study the English language. 
He became associated with Tiffany & Company and with that con¬ 
cern remained for a period of three years, where he pursued his 
profession and, incidentally, came in touch with Air. George Kunz, 
regarded as the world’s greatest gem expert and from whom Air. 
Petri obtained much additional valuable knowledge relating to 
his particular line of business. 

In 1908 Air. Petri came to Indianapolis, here to continue in 
the same line of business until 1922 when he organized the com¬ 
pany to which he now devotes his entire time and energy. 

Air. Petri is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Indi¬ 
anapolis Athletic Club, and Kiwanis Club; served in the French 
Army and is a first lieutenant in the United States Army Officers 
Reserve Corps. He is also secretary-treasurer of the Indianapolis 
Baking Co. 

The marriage of All*. Petri to Aliss Dorothy Scliooley occurred 
at Aiilwaukee, Wisconsin, June 2, 1906. There is one daughter, 
Frances Helene. The Petri family residence is at 410 East Thirty- 
seventh Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



DR. ORANGE G. PFAFF 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ORANGE G. PFAFF 

UARANGE G. PFAFF, M. D., F. A. C. S., was born at Westfield, 

Hamilton County, Indiana, April 28, 1857, son of Hr. Jacob 
L. and Jane (Wall) Pfaff. His preliminary education was re¬ 
ceived in the public schools of Indianapolis, having upon the death 
of his father, been brought to this city when but six years of age. 

Upon the completion of his early schooling, Hr. Pfaff entered 
the Medical College of Indiana and from that institution grad¬ 
uated in 1882 with the degree of Hoctor of Medicine. This was 
followed by a course of nearly two years of hospital work as resi¬ 
dent physician of the Marion County Infirmary, after which he 
engaged in the general practice of medicine in Indianapolis. 
From 1890-91, Hr. Pfaff pursued courses in the New York Post 
Graduate School and in the New York Polyclinic and then in 1892 
took up and followed special courses in Europe, returning to In¬ 
dianapolis in the Fall of that year to here resume the general 
practice of medicine. In 1903 he discontinued general practice to 
devote his professional work exclusively to that of surgery, espec¬ 
ially gynecological surgery, in which he has achieved well earned 
distinction as a specialist. 

In addition to the time devoted to his active practice Hr. 
Pfaff has, since his graduation from medical college occupied 
teaching positions at the Indiana University School of Medicine 
end since 1892 has continuously been Professor of Gynecology at 
that institution. He has also for a number of years been Gynecolo¬ 
gist at the Indianapolis City and St. Vincent Hospitals. 

Hr. Pfaff is a member of the Indianapolis Medical Society of 
which he was president in 1907; the Indiana State Medical So¬ 
ciety, American Medical Association, the American Association 
of Obstetricans and Gynecologists, the Mississippi Valley Medical 
Society and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He 
is also a member of the University Club, Woodstock Club and 
Country Club. 

For many years Hr. Pfaff has held a commission in the Medi¬ 
cal Reserve Corp of the United States Army and upon the out¬ 
break of the European War was promoted to a Majority and 
called into active service with the Lilly Base Hospital, which 
later became United States Army Base Hospital No. 32, and with 
that unit served for several months. 

The marriage of Hr. Pfaff to Miss Mary E. Avery took place 
at Indianapolis, November 25, 1885. There is one son, Hudley A. 
Pfaff, a graduate of Yale College in the class of 1918 and a grad¬ 
uate of the Indiana Medical School in the class of 1922. Hr. 
Hudley Pfaff, who is now entering into association with his father 
in the "practice of surgery, was married to Miss Frances Parsons 
of Binghamton, New York, June 10, 1922. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



S. O. PICKENS 


Photograph by Dexheimer 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


S. 0. PICKENS 

OAMUEL OWEN PICKENS, attorney, head of the law firm of 
^ Pickens, Moores, Davidson & Pickens, was born in Owen 
Comity, Indiana, April 26,1816, son of Samuel and Eliza (Baldon) 
Pickens. He received his early education in the common schools 
of Owen County and at the Academy at Spencer, Indiana, after¬ 
ward becoming a student in the law department of Indiana Uni¬ 
versity, from which he graduated in 1873. The same year he 
began the practice of law at Spencer. 

Twice was the subject of this sketch elected prosecuting at¬ 
torney for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, composed of Morgan, 
Owen and Green Counties, the first term beginning in 1877, the 
second 1879 and ending in 1881. He was appointed District So¬ 
licitor in the law department of the Pennsylvania Railway Lines 
in 1878 and has ever since held that position. 

In November, 1886, Mr. Pickens came to Indianapolis. In 
this city he has been continuously active in the practice of liis pro¬ 
fession to the present time. He has never held nor sought public 
office, except as above stated. He has always been an adherent of 
the Democratic Party, however, and was chairman of the State 
Democratic Sound Money Committee during the campaign of 
1896. 

Mr. Pickens organized the Crawford Baptist Industrial 
School of Zionsville, Indiana, and was for several years chairman 
of its board of trustees. 

For twenty-four years he was a member of the Executive 
Committee of the Indiana Young Men’s Christian Association and 
for a number of years was also a trustee of the First Baptist 
Church of Indianapolis. Mr. Pickens is a member of the Indi¬ 
anapolis Bar Association, of which he was president in 1896; the 
Indiana State Bar Association and American Bar Association. 
He is also a member of the Country Club of Indianapolis and the 
University Club, on the board of each of which he has served as 
a director. He was president of the University Club during the 
year 1920. 

In 1872 Mr. Pickens married Miss Virginia Franklin, daugh¬ 
ter of Judge William M. Franklin of Spencer, Indiana. Mrs. 
Pickens died March 12, 1919. There are four children: Rush F. 
Pickens, Mrs. H. C. Adams, Jr., nee Mary Pickens; Owen Pick¬ 
ens, junior member of his father’s firm; and Mrs. Paul Donald 
Brown, nee Marguerite Pickens. Another daughter, Virginia, is 
deceased. Mr. Pickens resides at 1901 North Pennsylvania 
Street 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



WILLIAM A. PICKENS 


Photograph hy Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


WILLIAM A. PICKENS 


ILLIAM A. PICKENS, for many years a leader in the practice of law 



W at the Indianapolis bar, and senior member of the firm of Pickens, Cox, 
Conder and Bain, was born in Owen County, Indiana, July 22, 1858, son of 
Samuel and Eliza (Baldon) Pickens. His father was born in Georgia and his 
mother in Kentucky. His early education was obtained in the schools of 
Owen County, Indiana, after which he attended the Indiana State University 
at Bloomington, Indiana, and then the law school of Columbian (now George¬ 
town) University at 'Washington, D. C. 

In May, 1881, Air. Pickens was admitted to the Indiana bar at Spencer and 
from that time until July, 1893, when he removed to Indianapolis, was engaged 
in the practice of law in Owen and adjoining counties. While at Spencer he 
served for twelve years as attorney for the Indianapolis and Vincennes Rail¬ 
road, and for six years during the same period was attorney for the Louisville, 
New Albany and Chicago Railroad, and was for four years deputy prosecuting 
attorney for Owen County. 

Upon coming to Indianapolis Mr. Pickens became associated with Mr. 
Linton A. Cox and later Mr. Sylvan W. Kahn was added to the firm, which 
continued until 1907 under the firm name of Pickens, Cox and Kahn. In 1907, 
upon the removal of Mr. Kahn from Indianapolis, Mr. Earl R. Conder became 
a member of the firm under the style, Pickens, Cox and Conder, which con¬ 
tinued until January 1, 1923, when the firm became Pickens, Cox, Conder and 
Bain. 

Mr. Pickens has always been an active force in social and economic re¬ 
forms of the city. He was one of the organizers of the Indiana Tariff Reform 
League in 1889. This league was the first active organized tariff reform 
effort in the west and had much to do with the election of Grover Cleveland 
in 1892, and the spread of tariff reform ideas. To that organization Mr. 
Pickens gave untiringly of his time and effort. lie was one of a committee o? 
two who drew the secret ballot law which was adopted by the Indiana legis¬ 
lature of 1889 and was the first secret ballot law adopted in this country. 
After the law was drawn he spent his entire time in the halls of the legislature 
fighting for its adoption, which came near the end of the session. 

Mr. Pickens was the chief actor in the force which put through the legis¬ 
lature a codification and reform of the private corporation laws of Indiana. 
11 is work in this matter began in the Indiana State Bar Association in 1914 and 
continued through four sessions of the General Assembly, resulting in the 
adoption of the law in 1921. He was Corporation Counsel of the city of In 
dianapolis during the term of Mayor Joseph E. Bell from 1914 to 1918. lie is 
a member of The American Bar Association, The Commercial Law League of 
America, The Indiana State Bar Association, and the Indianapolis Bar Asso¬ 
ciation, of which latter association he was president for the year 1911: Indi¬ 
anapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Athenaeum, 
Indiana Democratic Club, is a Thirty-second degree Mason, a member of 
Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. M. and Past Master of Spencer Lodge, 
No. 95. 

The marriage of Mr. Pickens to Miss Anne Jennings Wiles occurred at 
Spencer, Indiana, September 29, 1886. There are two daughters, Mrs. Don E. 
Brewer, nee Virginia, and Mrs. Clifford Foote, nee Eliza. Mr. and Mrs. Pick¬ 
ens reside at 1998 North New Jersey Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



RALPH B. POLK 


Photograph hy Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


RALPH BURDICK POLK 



ALPII BURDICK POLK, president of The Polk Company, The Polk 


A N Farming Company and vice-president of The Polk Sanitary Milk Com 
pany was horn near Greenwood, Indiana, August 31, 1875, son of James T. 
Polk, pioneer canner and philanthropist, and Laura Burdick Polk, nationally 
known business woman. He has one sister, Pearl Polk Dungan, wife of Sam¬ 
uel 0. Dungan, president of the Polk Sanitary Milk Company. 

Born at the time of year known by canners as the “Glut” season, within 
four hundred yards of one of the first canning factories west of the Alle 
ghany mountains, he entered the environment of the canning business at an 
extremely tender age. 

lie has seen the industry grow from a very crude “rule of thumb” busi¬ 
ness to a scientifically controlled industry. Practically all of the present day 
efficient machinery and scientific methods have been developed within the 
limits of his memory. 

Mr. Polk was the active head of the J. T. Polk Company (successors to 
.). T. Polk) from the time of its incorporation in 1901, until it merged its 
seven plants with Sears & Nichols Company, in 1921. 

For several years Mr. Polk has spent his winters in Florida, having a 
home at Miami. Having made some investments in citrus fruit enterprises, he 
began to turn his attention to the preservation of certain grades of grape 
fruit which do not sell to advantage fresh. In the meantime, the canning of 
the membrane free sections of grapefruit in Porto Rico had been undertaken 
in a small way and in 1921 Mr. Polk started this industry in the plant of The 
Polk Company in Miami, the first to can grapefruit in the United States. The 
goods met with immediate success in the market and The Polk Company is 
now operating three plants in Florida and is building three more which will be 
operated in the 1923 and 1924 seasons. 

In 1918 the War Department asked Mr. Polk to go to France to assist the 
French canners in canning, by American methods, some of the foods recpiired 
by the American Army. He arrived in France about a week before the Ar¬ 
mistice was signed. Work for which he went becoming unnecessary because 
of the Armistice, he was sent in company with Dr. A. W. Bitting on a general 
inspection trip over France covering the battlefield where a few days before 
the last fighting of the War was done. 

In 1903 Mr. Polk married Grace Poterfield, of Richmond, Indiana, well 
known composer and singer. They have one son, Ralph Polk, Jr., born August 
6, 1905, and now a Cadet in Culver Military Academy. Mr. Polk’s clubs are 
the Columbia and Indianapolis Athletic, of Indianapolis; Missouri Athletic, 
St. Louis and the Union League Club of Chicago. Mr. Polk and family live 
at Greenwood, Indiana, in the summer and Miami, Florida, in the winter. 


501 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



J. M. PRICE 


Photograph by Bretzman 


502 




INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN M. PRICE 

T OHN M. PRICE, president of the Boncilla Laboratories, Inc., 
J is a native Hoosier, having been born in Washington County, 
Indiana, September 5, 1872, son of Charles T. and Alice L. (Gar- 
riott) Price. 

Mr. Price received his early education in the schools near his 
home, completing his education by taking a course in the Harts- 
ville (Indiana) College. His first business venture was in the 
lumber business with his father and later he conducted a hardware 
establishment. 

In March, 1900, he moved with his family to Indianapolis, 
here entering a partnership with A. F. Garriott in the chemical 
manufacturing business. This plant, known as The Crown Chemi¬ 
cal Company, was incorporated in 1902, Mr. Price becoming sec¬ 
retary and treasurer of the organization. In 1905 Mr. Price suc¬ 
ceeded Mr. Garriott as president of the company, which position 
he has since continuously held. The firm still continues under 
the same management, the name of the company having recently 
been changed to the Boncilla Laboratories, Inc. 

Mr. Price personally worked out the formula for the “ Bon¬ 
cilla Method” and in addition has taken direct charge of the de¬ 
signing of packages and merchandising. Vast quantities of Bon¬ 
cilla products are shipped from the Indianapolis plant daily to 
finally reach their destination in every part of the world. There 
is also a branch plant in Toronto, Canada, incorporated as The 
Canadian Boncilla Laboratories, Ltd., of which Mr. Price is also 
president. 

The psychology of advertising as it influences millions of 
minds, is Mr. Price’s favorite study and work. 

Mr. Price married Miss Rachel P. Stalker in Washington 
County, Indiana, on December 29, 1893. There are five children, 
Miss Blanche Price, Harry E. Price, Raymond Price, Mrs. Paul¬ 
ine Price McCollum and Mrs. Margaret Price Yohler. The two 
sons are associated with their father in the Boncilla Laboratories. 
The family resides at 3716 North Delaware Street. 

Mr. Price is a member of the Kiwanis Club, Hoosier Motor 
Club, Columbia Club, and of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, E. & A. M. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



CARL J. PRINZLER 


Photograph by Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CARL J. PRINZLER 



ARL J. PRINZLER, a director and department manager of 


^ the Vonnegut Hardware Company, was born at Indianapolis, 
June 6, 1870, son of Louis and Louisa (Reiger) Prinzler. He 
was educated in the Indianapolis public schools. 

Mr. Prinzler joined the Vonnegut Hardware Company on 
November 1, 1887, first doing odd jobs about the store and later 
working his way through all branches of the business. In 1895 he 
was made manager of the company’s building material and art- 
hardware department. In 1908 he became a stockholder in the 
Vonnegut Hardware Company and in 1910 was elected a director, 
which office he has since held. 

Such disasters as the famous Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago 
in 1903 and the Lakewood School fire at North Collinwood, Ohio, 
(a suburb of Cleveland) in 1908, which resulted in heavy losses of 
life because of the inswinging jammed doors, led Mr. Prinzler to 
design the Von Duprin self-releasing fire exit devices, which are 
now so widely used upon theatres, public buildings, school build¬ 
ings, office and industrial buildings and other structures. He 
received numerous patents in this and foreign countries on the 
Von Duprin devices and copyrights in this and other countries on 
the Von Duprin coined word and began its manufacture March 13, 
1908. At this time they are in use in nearly every country in the 
world. 

Four factories, one in Indianapolis, one in Chicago, one in 
North Chicago and the fourth at Bellville, Ontario, Canada, are 
manufacturing these devices for the Vonnegut Hardware Com¬ 
pany. Active sales organizations for the company are in many 
of the larger countries, including Australia, England, France, 
New Zealand and Japan, in addition to the twenty-three branch 
offices in the United States. 

At this writing, Von Duprin devices are being supplied for 
government and telephone buildings, the Rockefeller Foundation, 
auditoriums, hippodromes, hotels and theatres in Pekin, China; 
Rio De Janerio, South America; Sidney, Australia, N. S. W.; 
Honolulu, H. I., and other places. 

Mr. Prinzler is a director of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Athen¬ 
aeum, Indianapolis Gymnasium, Iviwanis Club, Hoosier Motor 
Club, the Marion County Fish and Forest Protective Association, 
the Pentalpha Lodge, No. 561, of Masons, Keystone Chapter, No. 
6, R. A. M., the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite and the A. A. O. N. 
Mystic Shrine. 

He married Miss Nina E. Gipe at Indianapolis on August 23, 
1899. They have a daughter, Miss Virginia Prinzler. The family 
home is at 3535 Central Avenue. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Dexheimer 

LEONARD M. QUILL 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


LEONARD M. QUILL 


EONARD M. QUILL, insurance representative, and county clerk of Marion 



-■—* County, Indiana, from 1907 to 1911, was born in West Manchester, Preble 
County, Ohio, December 15, 1868, son of Thomas P. and Adaline (Banta' 
Quill. His father was a native of Comity Kerry, Ireland, immigrating to 
America with his parents when he was ten years old. 

Mr. Qnill attended the parochial and public schools of Indianapolis and 
then studied at the Indianapolis Business College. Completing his business 
college training he became associated with the Buffalo Shoe Store, which at 
that time was a large retail shoe establishment in Indianapolis. lie was with 
the shoe company for two years and then became employed in the office of the 
assessor of Center Township, his father being the township assessor at that 
time. 

After leaving the assessor’s office, Mr. Quill became associated with the 
Indianapolis Gas Company, remaining with that company for a period of 
twelve years, until December 25, 1902, when he resigned his position to become 
chief deputy in the office of William E. Davis, comity clerk. He was a candi¬ 
date on the Republican ticket for clerk in 1906 and was elected in November of 
that year to serve from January 1, 1907, to January 1, 1911. 

Upon the conclusion of this last mentioned term of office, Mr. Quill en 
gaged in the real estate and insurance business with his father under the firm 
name of Quill & Quill. Upon the death of his father, in May, 1917, Mr. Qnill 
continued the business alone until January 1, 1918, when he entered a partner 
ship with Mr. Edward II. Schmidt, formerly United States marshal, in the 
general insurance business. This continued for a short time, however, due to 
the fact that Kir. Schmidt was appointed receiver for the Central Union Tele¬ 
phone Company and whereupon Kir. Qnill continued the business alone under 
his own name. Early in 1923 Kir. Qnill became associated in the offices of 
Foster and Messick, general insurance agents representing the United States 
Fidelity & Guaranty Company of Baltimore, Maryland, and to this new con¬ 
nection he now devotes his entire attention. 

In politics, Mr. Qnill has always been an active supporter of the Re¬ 
publican party and a strong worker in the ranks of that organization. At 
the time of Mr. Ralph A. Lemcke’s campaign, Mr. Qnill acted as his campaign 
manager and it is a matter of history that Kir. Lemcke was overwhelmingly 
elected to the office of County Treasurer. 

He is a member of the Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus, the 
Marion Club, the Board of Trade and the Benevolent Protective Order of 
Elks, No 13, having been Exalted Ruler of the last mentioned in 1917 and 1918 
and elected an honorary life member on December 2, 1919. 

The marriage of Mr. Quill to Miss Nora C. Golden, of Indianapolis oc¬ 
curred on July 20, 1892. There are three children, Thomas E., William P. and 
Anna Patricia. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Moorefield 

HON. SAMUEL M. RALSTON 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. SAMUEL M. RALSTON 


H ON. SAMUEL MOFFETT RALSTON, 
Democratic Senator from Indiana; Gov¬ 
ernor of Indiana from January 13, 1913, to 
January 9, 1917; for many years prominently 
identified with Democratic politics in Indiana 
and also senior member of the firm of Ralston, 
Gates, Lairv, Van Nuys and Barnard, attor¬ 
neys, was born December 1, 1857, on a farm at 
New Cumberland, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 
son of John and Sarah (Scott) Ralston. In 
1865 his parents moved to Owen County, In¬ 
diana, living there for eight years. They after¬ 
wards moved to Stilesville and Brazil, Indiana, 
and then to Fontanet, Indiana, where the father 
took a coal lease and sunk a shaft, with the 
assistance of his son. A short time later, how¬ 
ever, the family returned to a farm in Owen 
County, near Lancaster, the postoffice being 
Patricksburg. 

In 1876, at the age of nineteen years, Sam¬ 
uel M. Ralston of this review began teaching 
school, afterward spending one term at Val¬ 
paraiso University and graduating from the 
Central Normal College at Danville, Indiana, 
in 1884. In this year he began reading law at 
Spencer, Indiana, and on January 1, 1886, was 
admitted to the Indiana bar. He located at 
Lebanon, Indiana, in June 1886, and in that 
city continued the practice of law until 1912 
when he was elected Governor of the State of 
Indiana. In both 1889 and in 1892 Senator 
Ralston was a presidential elector, casting in 
the first year mentioned one of Indiana’s elec- 
torial votes for the reelection of Grover Cleve¬ 
land as president of the United States. In 
1908 he was a candidate for Governor of Indi¬ 
ana before the Democratic State Convention 
of that year but was defeated in the nomina¬ 
tion by Hon. Thomas R. Marshall, later vice- 
president of the United States. While living 
in Lebanon Senator Ralston was president of 
the Lebanon School Board from 1908 to 1911. 


Of Senator Ralston, as Governor of Indi¬ 
ana, it may be said with strict adherence to 
truth and justice that he more than met the 
expectations of those who were instrumental in 
placing him at the head of the State govern¬ 
ment. As an honest and upright man he was 
ever mindful of his oath of office and untiring 
in his efforts to serve the state to the best of 
his understanding and ability. On all moral 
questions that presented themselves from time 
to time there was at no time, under any con¬ 
dition or circumstances, the slightest question 
as to the Governor’s attitude, while from an 
economic standpoint it is of interest to here 
recall that upon the termination of his office 
he turned over to his successor a cash balance 
in excess of three million dollars and thus, 
after having paid off a large state indebted¬ 
ness, reported the state out of debt, for the first 
time in eighty-two years. 

In the spring of 1922, following the insist¬ 
ent demands of his friends and political asso¬ 
ciations, to the effect that he allow his name 
to be placed upon the national ticket as a can¬ 
didate for Senator from Indiana, Senator Ral¬ 
ston became the Democratic nominee and in 
the fall of that year was elected to the office 
which he now occupies in the sixty-eighth 
Congress, his term having begun on March 4, 
1923, to continue until March 4, 1929. 

Senator Ralston is a member of the Indian¬ 
apolis and Indiana State Bar Associations, In¬ 
diana Democratic Club, Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, Knights of Pythias, Owen Lodge No. 655 
F. & A. M. and the Presbyterian Church. 

The marriage of Senator Ralston to Miss 
Jennie Craven of Hendricks County, Indiana, 
took place at Danville, Indiana, December 30, 
1889. There are three children: Emmet Grat- 
ten, Julian Craven, and Mrs. Stewart La Rue, 
(Ruth). 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



THEO. A. RANDALL 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


THEODORE AMASA RANDALL 

HTHEODORE AMASA RANDALL, second son of Clark Mathew 

and Nancy Ann Brittain Randall, was born at Akron, Ohio, 
June 11, 1857. On the death of his mother in 1861, Theodore was 
taken to his paternal grandmother at Albion, N. Y., where he spent 
his childhood days. His father volunteered in response to Lincoln’s 
first call for troops in 1861, and after the war the family moved 
to Utica, N. Y., where they remained until 1870, when the father 
again heard the call of the West and came to Indianapolis, which 
since then lias been Theodore’s home. 

He completed an academic course in the Northwestern Chris¬ 
tian University (now Butler College) in 1871, and accepted a 
clerkship in his father’s office as an accountant, continuing in 
that line for several years. In 1884 he resigned as Cashier for 
Indiana of the New York Life Insurance Company, and estab¬ 
lished the firm of T. A. Randall & Co., publishers of The Clay- 
Worker, a pioneer monthly trade magazine devoted to the brAk, 
tile and pottery industries, of which he has always been Editor 
and manager. For many years The Clay-Worker has been recog¬ 
nized as an authority in this industry throughout the world. 

In 1886 he instigated the organization of the National Brick 
Manufacturers’ Association, was elected secretary and has con¬ 
tinued as such to the present time. A continuous service of thirty- 
eight years, which is thought to be a world’s record. 

Mr. Randall was married in 1877 to Amanda Adelaide Bill¬ 
ingsley and now has three children, two sons, Theodore B. and 
James E., and one daughter, Mrs. J. T. Liddle, one granddaughter 
and one grandson. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, a life 
member of Murat Temple Order of the Mystic Shrine, a member 
of the Columbia Club, of Benjamin Harrison Camp, Sons of 
Veterans, and other local organizations. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



T. C. RAPP 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


TRUMAN C. RAPP 



RUMAN C. RAPP, president of the Rapp Company and Rapp’s Cut Price 


A Company, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, son of John F. and Jane 
(Booso) Rapp. lie obtained his early education in the public schools of the 
county of his birth, after which he pursued for two years a course at the Normal 
School at Lebanon, Ohio. 

Upon the completion of this schooling, Mr. Rapp established a mercantile 
store at Marathon, Ohio. Between that city and Cincinnati, Ohio, he also oper¬ 
ated a huckster wagon, delivering produce purchased in the country to Cin¬ 
cinnati and returning with merchandise for the shelves of his store. This he 
did for a period of two years, when he went to Georgetown, Ohio, and there 
engaged for six years in the mercantile business. 

Selling his business at Georgetown, Mr. Rapp moved to Washington Court¬ 
house, Ohio, and in that location established another mercantile business which 
continued for approximately thirteen years. For the next two years Mr. Rapp 
bought and sold mercantile stores in various parts of the country and in 1904 
settled in Kokomo, Indiana, where he established the “Southside Store.” 

In 1916 Mr. Rapp came to Indianapolis and in this city purchased Brown’s 
Shoe Store, at the corner of Alabama and Washington Streets, which he oper¬ 
ated until January, 1922, when he removed to his present location at 338-340 
East Washington Street. 

The Rapp Company comprises stores located at Anderson, Lafayette, Elk¬ 
hart and New Castle, Indiana, all popular priced merchandise stores. In 1916 
the Rapp Cut Price Company was incorporated to include Rapp’s Annex at 
Kokomo, a store at Peru and a store at Richmond, Indiana. The next year 
BroAvn’s Shoe Store at Indianapolis and the Southside Store at Kokomo were 
added to the list operated by the company, and in 1919 a store at Elwood, 
Indiana, came under this ownership. 

In addition to his interest in the above companies, Mr. Rapp personally 
owns the store located at Indianapolis, a cut price store at Piqua, Ohio and 
jointly owns with a son Hervey Lynn, a furniture store located at Los Angeles, 
California. Mr. Rapp is also vice-president of the Security Trust Company 
and president of the Weidely Motors Company, both of Indianapolis. 

The marriage of Mr. Rapp to Miss Sally McKibben occurred at George¬ 
town, Ohio, August 28, 1890. There are four children, Mrs. Frank C. Kellie, 
nee Nelle Jane; Howard B.; Mrs. Glen M. Tindall, nee Helen Louise, and Iler- 
vev Lynn, all born while Mr. and Mrs. Rapp lived at Washington Courthouse, 

Ohio. 

Mr. Rapp is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Colum¬ 
bia Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club and the Highland Golf and Country Club 
and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



LEO M. RAPPAPORT 


Photograph hy Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


LEO M. RAPPAPORT 

LA M. RAPPAPORT, attorney, is a native Hoosier, having 
been born in Indianapolis, June 19, 1879, son of Philip and 
Babette Rappaport. His early education was obtained in the 
public schools of the city of bis birth, after which be entered the 
Law Department of the University of Michigan, from which he 
graduated in 1900, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. 

Immediately upon the completion of his collegiate course, Mr. 
Rappaport returned to Indianapolis and here entered the practice 
of law, forming a partnership in the Fall of 1908, with Mr. Al¬ 
brecht R. C. Kipp under the firm name of Rappaport & Kipp, 
which continues to this writing. 

In addition to the general practice of law, Mr. Rappaport has 
for a number of years been actively identified with various busi¬ 
ness and civic interests of Indianapolis. He is a member of the 
Board of Directors of the Fletcher American National Bank, a 
director of the Fletcher American Company, a director and Vice- 
president of the Aetna Savings and Trust Company, a director 
of the Circle Theatre Company, a director of Lewis Mier & Com¬ 
pany, and secretary and treasurer of the Republic Finance & In¬ 
vestment Company. 

He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Com¬ 
munity Chest, was a director of the Children’s Aid Association 
prior to the time that organization became a part of the Family 
Welfare Society and was a member of the original State Park 
Commission of Indiana, which was instrumental in the creation of 
sentiment leading to the ultimate purchase by that Commission 
of Turkey Run and McCormick’s Creek Park. Mr. Rappaport is 
a member of the Columbia Club and Athenaeum. 

The marriage of Mr. Rappaport to Miss Charlotte Adam took 
place at Indianapolis, June 15, 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Rappaport 
reside at 1514 Park Avenue. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JOHN RAU 


Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN RAU 


J OHN RAU, president of the Fairmount Glass 
Works, pioneer glass manufacturer and 
one of the most widely informed makers of 
glass in the country at this writing, was born 
at Louisville, Kentucky, August 15, 1856, son 
of Frederick G. and Rebecca (Schnider) Ran. 
His father, a native of Germany, came to the 
United States when fifteen years of age and at 
Louisville, Kentucky, made his permanent res¬ 
idence. Mr. Rail's mother was a native of this 
country, of German parentage. 

Second in the family of twelve children of 
which ten reached maturity, John Ran of this 
sketch, had little opportunity to secure an ed¬ 
ucation. When but nine years of age he began 
working in a glass factory at Louisville and in 
this continued until eighteen j^ears of age, 
when he realized the necessity of securing an 
education as essential to the making of a suc¬ 
cessful career. That education he largely ac¬ 
quired during intervals of hard work and late 
hours at night. During 1884 and 1885 Mr 
Ran was employed in a glass factory at Mil¬ 
waukee, Wisconsin. Ilis Milwaukee employer 
then started a factory at Golden, Colorado, and 
Mr. Rau was one of the men selected to open 
the new plant. During the next two years he 
was located at Golden, Colorado, during the 
last year of which he was manager of the plant. 
The following year Mr. Rau spent at Massillon, 
Ohio, blowing glass and further equipping him¬ 
self for the years which were to follow. 

Thus is summarized the experience which 
proceeded the pioneer efforts of Mr. Rau in the 
glass making industry in Indiana and in which 
lie was destined to take an active part, al¬ 
though it is of interest to here add that during 
all of this time Mr. Rau was definitely laying 
plans for the future, in which he visualized the 
eventual ownership of a business of his own. 
In 1889 Mr. Rau formed an equal partnership 
with three other men and established a glass 
factory at Fairmount, Indiana, and for the fol¬ 
lowing eighteen years was one of the men who 
upheld the hands of industry in that typical 
Quaker settlement. In 1904 Mr. Rau moved to 
Indianapolis and in this city, with several as¬ 
sociates built a large plant for the manufacture 
of bottle ware. At this writing the entire plant 
is owned by Mr. Rau and his immediate family 
associates. It represents an investment of over 
half a million dollars devoted exclusively to 
the making of bottles of all sizes and colors, 


and employs an average of several hundred 
persons. 

Although Mr. Rau has been very actively 
identified with the executive side of the glass 
making industry, he has also contributed much 
to the development of the business from a me¬ 
chanical standpoint, as is evidenced by the fact 
that he holds in his own name between fifteen 
and twenty patents involving various phases 
of glass making. Mr. Rau has the distinction 
of building one of the first continuous tanks in 
the United States and although it was an ex¬ 
periment that involved big chances, its utility 
was demonstrated with such certainty that six 
years later other glass makers began to follow 
his example. Many of the machines now used 
by the Fairmount Glass Company are the indi¬ 
vidual inventions of Mr. Rau, who is said to 
have made more improvements in the glass 
business than any other one man. The com¬ 
pany of which he is the head was the first in 
the world to make large bottles ranging from 
two to five gallon capacity on machines, and as 
a result of the Leahr Automatic Muffled Sys¬ 
tem for trimming bottles recently installed, 
production capacity has reached more than 
three carloads of bottles a day. 

Although an employer of labor, Mr. Rau 
has always shown a sympathetic understanding 
and appreciation of the position of those work¬ 
ing for him. As a workman he stood high in 
the councils of union labor and his company 
has always been conducted as a union shop. 
When himself a glass blower, he held nearly 
every office in the union, while he has been 
for the past fourteen years a member of the 
executive board of the National Association of 
Glass Manufacturers. 

In addition to these associations, Mr. Rau 
was one of the organizers and original incor¬ 
porators of the One-Piece Bi-focal Lens Com¬ 
pany and also one of the original incorporators 
and founders of the Twin-sight Optical Com¬ 
pany, being president of both companies for a 
number of years, until 1923 when he sold his 
interests. 

Mr. Ran is a member of the Indianapolis 
Athletic Club and is a Republican in politics. 

The marriage of Mr. Rau to Miss Alice 
Marsh of Louisville, Kentucky, occurred in 
1883. There are three children, John 11 ite, 
Charles Dillard and Mrs. Kenneth K. Wool- 
ling, (Alice Marie). The family residence is 
at 1504 Park Avenue. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JOSEPH R. RAUB 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOSEPH REYNOLDS RAUB 

T OSEPH REYNOLDS RAUB, secretary of tlie Indianapolis 
* Life Insurance Company, and for many years associated with 
tlie life insurance and banking business, was born at Chalmers, 
White County, Indiana, March 10, 1871, son of Jacob and Sallie 
C. (Reynolds) Raub. 

The preliminary education of the subject of this review was 
obtained in the public grade and high schools of Chalmers, after 
which he attended DePauw University. Upon the conclusion of 
this last mentioned couise he entered the banking business at 
Chalmers, being cashier of The Bank of Chalmers, and, at the 
same time, a representative of a number of insurance companies. 

In 1905, Mr. Raub came to Indianapolis, here to assist in the 
organization of the Indianapolis Life Insurance Company of 
which he lias since been continuously the secretary. 

Mr. Raub is a member of the Columbia Club, the Rotary Club, 
the Optimist Club, and the Delta Upsilon College Fraternity. In 
the Masonic Fraternity, he is a member of Mystic Tie Lodge No. 
398 F. & A. M., the York Rite and the Murat Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine. In addition to these Associations, he is also a member of 
the Athletic Board of DePauw University. 

The marriage of Mr. Raub to Miss Edna Elizabeth Bennett 
took place in Indianapolis, July 21, 1915. There are two children, 
Mary Jean and Joseph Reynolds Raub, Jr. 


519 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



SAMUEL E. RAUH 


Photograph by Bretzvxan 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


SAMUEL ELIAS RAUH 

CAMUEL ELIAS RAUH, president of the Belt Railroad and 
^ Stock Yards Company, an executive in many corporations, was 
horn at Germerslieim, Bavaria, Germany, on December 21, 1853, 
the son of Elias and Hannah (Abrahams') Ranh. He emigrated 
to the United States on the 26th day of November, 1866, coming 
direct to Dayton, Ohio, where his father engaged in the hide 
business in that city. 

Samuel E. Ranh received his earlv education in Germany and 
also attended the public schools and Commercial College in Day- 
ton, Ohio. Having completed his education, he became associated 
with his father until the year 1874, when lie opened a branch house 
at Indianapolis in a similar business. He continued actively in 
this business and in 1880 established the E. Ranh & Sons Fertilizer 
Company. 

In 1891 he was elected president of the Moore Packing Com¬ 
pany, who were engaged in the meat packing business. In 1897 
he was elected president of the Belt Railroad and Stock Yards 
Company and is still continuing as its president. 

He has been actively engaged in the commercial life of Indi¬ 
anapolis, acting as vice-president of the Federal Union Surety 
Company, and is now vice-president and a director of the E. Ranh 
& Sons Fertilizer Company; was a director in the Indianapolis 
Abattoir Company; is a director of the Indiana National Bank and 
the Union Trust Company of Indianapolis; a director of the 
Kokomo Steel and Wire Company, of Kokomo, Indiana. 

He is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club and also on 
the Building Committee; was on the Building Committee of the 
Highland Golf and Country Club. He is a member of the In- 
dianapolis Chamber of Commerce; is Governor of the Indianap¬ 
olis Board of Trade; is Chairman of the Building Committee of 
the Broadmoor Golf and Country Club, and a member of the In¬ 
dianapolis Club. He served six years as President of the Park 
Board of Indianapolis. He is a Director of the Athenaeum and is 
also State Chairman of the American Jewish Relief Committee. 
His family holds membership in the Indianapolis Hebrew Con¬ 
gregation. 

Mr. Ranh married Miss Emma Sterne, May 20, 1879, whose 
father was the originator of the Peru Woolen Mills. Mr. Ranh is 
the father of the late Mrs. Samuel D. Weil (nee Estelle Weil) of 
Cleveland, Ohio; Charles S. Ranh and Hortense Ranh Burpee of 
this city. The family home is at 3024 North Meridian Street, In- 

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dianapolis, Indiana. 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



G. A. RECKER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GUSTAV A. RECKER 

^MJSTAY A. RECKER, president and treasurer of the Sander 

& Recker Furniture Company, was born at Indianapolis, July 
19, 1866, son of Gottfried and Lina (Kunz) Recker. The father 
came to America from Germany in 1849, landing at New Orleans, 
Louisiana, and coming directly to Indianapolis. For many years 
Gottfried Recker was in the employ of H. Lieber & Company of 
Indianapolis, but later became associated with Theodore Sander 
in the Western Furniture Company. 

Mr. Recker, the subject of this sketch, attended the Indianap¬ 
olis public schools and after completing high school instruction, 
entered the employe of Sander & Recker. With the dissolution of 
the Western Furniture Company, Sander & Recker took over 
complete control of the retail store and for the past fifty-five 
years the store established by Gottfried Recker and Theodore 
Sander has been serving Indianapolis homes. 

With the incorporation of the Sander & Recker Furniture 
Company in 1901, the retail store was taken over by this firm 
which is composed of Gustav A. Recker, president and treasurer; 
Carl Sander, vice-president and Carlos Recker, secretary. Carl 
Sander is the son of Theodore Sander who, with Gottfried Reck¬ 
er, founded the business more than a half century ago. 

Mr. Recker is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, the Merchants Association of Indianapolis, the Indianap¬ 
olis Board of Trade, the Columbia Club, the Indianapolis Athletic 
Club and the Kiwanis Club. Tie was one of the organizers of the 
Better Business Bureau and has been active in civic activities in 
Indianapolis. 

On June 30, 1893, Mr. Recker married Miss Estelle Rogers of 
Indianapolis, Mis. Recker died in the year 1919. There are two 
children, Margaret E. Recker, now Mrs. G. E. Miller, of Portland, 
Oregon, an artist, who during the war was in Red Cross work 
stationed at Washington, I). C., and Max Rogers Recker, who was 
in service during the World War. The family home is at 2004 
North Meridian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



HARRY REID 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HARRY REID 



ARRY REID, public utility operator, president of the Inter- 


1 1 state Public Service Company and other utility corporations, 
was born on December 31, 1879, at Johnstown, New York, son of 
Nathan Reid and Jennie (Wilbur) Reid. Educated in public 
schools of Johnstown and a business college at Gloversville, New 


York. 


When Mr. Reid was seven years old his father died, and at the 
age of eleven the subject of this sketch began work to assist in the 
support of the family. He was a stenographer and later a law 
clerk in the office of Clarence AY. Smith in Johnstown. Then he 
became associated with the Fulton County (New York) Gas and 
Electric Company, remaining with that company in various ca¬ 
pacities until 390b, when he, with associates, acquired the A T er- 
sailles (Kentucky) Electric Light Company. Later he obtained 
control of the company and became its president. 

In 3912 Air. Reid became associated with the Aliddle AA T est 
Utilities Company of Chicago, Illinois, and with them founded the 
Kentucky UTtilities Company, Louisville, Ky., a subsidiary of the 
Chicago corporation. In 3917, he became president of the Inter¬ 
state Public Service Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, another 
subsidiary of the Middle West Utilities Company; and also presi¬ 
dent of the Southern Indiana Power Company and the Indianap¬ 
olis & Louisville Traction Railway Company. 

These activities in utility corporations have made him a mem¬ 
ber of many of the important organizations of that industry. He 
is a member of the executive committee of the Central Electric 
Railway Association; member of the Executive Committee of the 
National Electric Light Association; member of the American 
Electric Railway Association, the Indiana Electric Light Associa¬ 
tion, the Indiana Association of Public Utilities, National Econ¬ 
omic League, the National Institute of Social Science, Kentucky 
Association of Public Utilities, the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers, and the American Institute of Electrical En¬ 
gineers. 

Air. Reid is a Knights Templar and a member of the Alystic 
Shrine. He is an Episcopalian. His clubs are the Columbia Club, 
the Country Club of Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
the University Club, and the Rotary Club in this city, and the 
Pendennis and River Valley Clubs of Louisville, Kentucky. 

He married Aliss Lucile Ah Rogers, of Versailles, Kentucky, 
at Louisville, Kentucky, on August 5, 1907. They have two chil¬ 
dren: Aliss Margaret Prather Reid and Harry Reid, Jr. The 

familv home is at 3261 North Pennsylvania Street. 

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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 

COL. JOHN B. REYNOLDS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN BATESON REYNOLDS 

J OHN BATESON REYNOLDS, general secretary of the Indianapolis Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce, was born at Clarksville, Tennessee, February 21, 1884, son 
of John B. and Mary Florence (Halsell) Reynolds. His early education was 
obtained in his home from his grandfather, who in ante-bellum days had con¬ 
ducted a private school in Tennessee. After completing this education at home 
he went to New York City, to engage in the advertising business with his broth¬ 
er. A short time later, however, he matriculated at Columbia University in the 
college of liberal arts and later studied law. 

In August, 1917, shortly after our entrance in the World War, the subject 
of this sketch entered the Second Officers’ Training Camp at Plattsburg, New 
York. He was commissioned a Captain in the Aviation Section, Signal Corps, 
in November, 1917, and was sent to Washington, D. C., as chief of the informa¬ 
tion section of the personnel branch, under Col. Hiram Bingham, of Yale, chief 
of Personnel. Here he remained on duty until the fall of 1918, when with the 
rank of Major, he was sent overseas. Arriving overseas, he was immediately 
assigned to make a special tour of inspection of air service units with Col. H. 
H. Arnold, inspecting units in England and France. In this work he was 
attached, temporarily, to the First Army Service, with headcpiarters at Souilly, 
France. 

Shortly after the armistice he was returned to Washington and it is here 
worthy to note that he is said to be the only officer to be returned to the same 
position in the Air Service in Washington after being sent abroad. In Febru¬ 
ary, 1919, Mr. Reynolds was selected by Col. Arthur Woods, formerly police 
commissioner of New York City, to assist in organizing forces directly under the 
Secretary of War to assist in the return of service men to civil life. He was 
placed in charge of this work in the Central District, including twenty-two 
states from the Dakotas to Texas and from Ohio to Florida. He chose Indian¬ 
apolis as his headquarters and after six months of service in this work was 
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, United States Army. Col. Rey¬ 
nolds remained in that office until February, 1920, when he resigned to become 
secretary of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. He retained, however, the 
rank of a Lieutenant-Colonel, Air Service, Reserve Corps. 

Mr. Reynolds is a member of the American Legion and has attended all 
the national meetings. He is a member of the Army and Navy Club and the 
Columbia University Club of New York. He is president of the Service Clubs 
International and a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club and the Indian¬ 
apolis Alumni Club of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. 

Mr. Reynolds resides at 621 East Thirteenth Street. 


527 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



EDMUND ROSENBERG 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDMUND ROSENBERG 

CDMUND ROSENBERG, son of John and Josephine (Tveil) 

Rosenberg, was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, December 2, 
1870. His father, now ninety-four years of age, held until his 
retirement from active business in 1922, the distinction of having 
maintained a place of business on East Washington Street for a 
longer consecutive period of years than any other business man 
within the history of the Hoosier Capital, having for fifty years 
conducted until the time noted, the house of John Rosenberg,— 
merchant tailor. 

The early education of Edmund Rosenberg, of this sketch, was 
obtained in the public schools of Indianapolis, upon the comple¬ 
tion of which he entered his father’s store and there, during a 
period of years secured liis business training. When sixteen years 
of age he entered the candy maker’s trade and in this engaged 
for a period of six years, when he became interested in the tent and 
awning business, learning all of the various branches of the busi¬ 
ness from apprenticeship to general management. In 1897 he 
determined to enter the tent and awning business independently 
and then, upon borrowed capital, formed the Indianapolis Tent & 
Awning Company, of which he continued the sole owner until 1921, 
at which time he sold his interests to retire from active business. 
During the twenty-four years in which Mr. Rosenberg conducted 
the Indianapolis Tent & Awning Company he became one of the 
outstanding figures in the tent and awning business of the country 
and came to know an unusually large number of men engaged in 
that line of business over the United States. He was president of 
the National Tent & Awning Manufacturers Association for two 
years (1916-7), immediately after which he served for a period of 
two years as chairman of the board of directors of that organiza¬ 
tion. 

Mr. Rosenberg is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Board of Trade, Academy of Music, Iviwanis Club, Indianapolis 
Casting Club, of which he is one of the original organizers, and a 
member of Lodge No. 13, B. P. O. E. and Modern Woodmen. 

The marriage of Mr. Rosenberg to Miss Avanelle Thorp, of 
North Vernon, Indiana, occurred at that place February 25, 1893. 


529 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



A. M. ROSENTHAL 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ALBERT M. ROSENTHAL 

A LBERT M. ROSENTHAL, soil of Moses and Frances (Hayes) Rosenthal, 
was born in Kokomo, Indiana, October 17, 1876. Ilis father came to the 
United States from Wurtenberg, Germany, in 1857 settling in Kokomo. He was 
one of eleven children and before he had reached the age of twenty-one had 
brought the entire family to this country. He conducted a general store and 
stove factory in Kokomo during the Civil War. He served as a volunteer to 
check the Morgan raiders at that time. The service lie rendered seriously im¬ 
paired his health hastening his early death which occurred when Albert M. was 
but nine years of age. 

Albert M. Rosenthal is president of the Standard Paper Company of In¬ 
dianapolis. He received his early education in the public schools of Indian¬ 
apolis supporting himself through his boyhood occupation, selling newspapers. 

On leaving school Mr. Rosenthal became identified with Dyer and Rass- 
man in the insurance and real estate business and remained with them until 1895 
when poor health necessitated a year in Colorado, after which he returned to 
Indiana and took a position as traveling salesman for the Capitol Paper Com¬ 
pany. He remained in this position until 1903 at which time he organized and 
became president of the Standard Paper Company. 

In addition to this enterprise Mr. Rosenthal is interested in several other 
organizations. He is vice-president of R. Ivirshbaum & Son; president of the 
Mercantile Building Company; vice-president and secretary of Kirshbaum Real¬ 
ity Company; a director of the Fletcher American National Bank and also of 
the Atlas Paper Company. 

Mr. Rosenthal has always taken an active part in civic affairs of his city. 
He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, trustee of the Indianapolis 
Hebrew Congregation, a director of the Jewish Federation of Indianapolis, a 
national director of the American Jewish Relief Committee, a director of the 
Indianapolis Chapter of the Red Cross, a member of the State Committee of 
the War Camp Community Service and, during the World War, was a mem¬ 
ber of the state executive committee of the IT. W. W.; a member of the cam¬ 
paign committee of the War Chest; a member of the executive committee of 
the Red Cross Campaign and was the originator of the Indianapolis Club Red 
Cross dinner at which function $201,000.00 was realized for the Red Cross 
fund. He was a member of the state executive committee of the American 
Relief Committee (Hoover Fund) ; the special gift committee of the Commun¬ 
ity Chest Campaign and active in every Liberty Loan Drive that was held dur¬ 
ing the war period. In fact, Mr. Rosenthal was working at all times to do 
whatever he could to aid in the Allied cause and was actively identified with 
every drive for funds that was conducted during the war. 

In this connection it is of interest to note that Mr. Rosenthal was general 
chairman of that committee which was responsible for the famous celebration 
which took place in Indianapolis on Bastile Day, July 14, 1918 and was also 
instrumental in bringing about the celebration known as the “Touchdown of 
the Marne,” which took place in Indianapolis on July 24, 1918 and which 
brought about what is believed to be the largest gathering of persons ever assem¬ 
bled on Monument Circle. 

Mr. Rosenthal is a Royal Arch Mason. He was the first president of the 
Indianapolis Club, is now a director and it was during his term as executive 
head that the elegant club house was built. He is president of the Broadmoor 
Country Club and a member of the Columbia Club. 

In 1902, December 30, Mr. Rosenthal married Miss Gertrude Kirschbaum 
at Indianapolis. There are two daughters, Flora Margaret and Janet Susanne. 
The Rosenthal home is at 2850 North Meridian Street. 


531 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



DR. DAVID ROSS 


Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 


532 






INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. DAVID ROSS 

F\R. DAVID ROSS, surgeon, and scion of stanch Scottish an- 

cestrv of historic and distinguished order, was born in Indi¬ 
anapolis, Indiana, November 20, 1865, son of Charles B. and Cath¬ 
erine (King) Ross. The former was born in Rosshire and the 
latter in Perthshire, Scotland. 

The early education of the subject of this sketch was obtained 
in the district schools of Hendricks County, Indiana, and in the 
public schools of Brazil, after which for a period of five years, he 
taught in the public schools of Clay County and in the city of 
Brazil. In 1891 he graduated from the Central Normal College 
at Danville, Indiana, with the degree of Bachelor of Science and 
on March 31, 1895, graduated from the Medical College of Indi¬ 
ana, in this city, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 

Immediately following the completion of this technical course, 
Dr. Ross became an interne for one year at the Indianapolis City 
Hospital, where he gained valuable clinical experience. In 1896 
he engaged in the general practice of medicine in which, during 
the years that have since elapsed, he lias gained a definite reputa¬ 
tion as a surgeon of marked skill and professional ability. In 1900 
Dr. Ross took a post-graduate course in the Post-Graduate Medical 
School of New York. 

Dr. Ross who has in later years devoted himself exclusively to 
the surgical branch of medical practice—especially to abdominal 
surgery—is consultant surgeon to the Indianapolis City Hospital, 
consultant surgeon to St. Vincent Hospital and Associate Pro¬ 
fessor of Surgery in the Indiana School of Medicine. He is a 
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the 
American Medical Association, Indiana State Medical Association, 
of which he was president in 1921. a member of the Indianapolis 
Medical Association (Marion County Medical Association) of 
which he was president in 1915, and a member of the Mississippi 

Valiev Medical Association. 

«/ 

In addition to these affiliations Dr. Ross is a member of the 
Indianapolis Rotary Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club and of the 
First Presbyterian Church. 

The marriage of Dr. Ross to Miss Margaret Gertrude Good- 
hart, daughter of Benjamin F. and Julia H. (Wright) Goodhart, 
of Indianapolis, occurred in this city, September 24, 1901. There 
is one son, Andrew Franklin Ross, born July 16, 1906. 


533 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Moorefield 

JAMES A. ROSS 


534 






INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JAMES A. ROSS 

JAMES A. ROSS, attorney, member of the firm of Matson, Car¬ 
ter, Ross McCord, was born in Delaware County, Indiana, 
February 19, 1883, son of James A. and Mary (Gibson) Ross. 
His education was obtained in the public grade and high schools 
of Muncie, Indiana, after which he attended Northwestern Uni¬ 
versity. He then, in 1901, entered the Indiana Law School and 
from that institution graduated in 1904, with the degree of Bache¬ 
lor of Laws. 

For a period of two years immediately following the com¬ 
pletion of the couise at the Indiana Law School, Mr. Ross engaged 
in the practice of law at Muncie. He then, in 1906, came to Indi¬ 
anapolis, where he has since continuously resided. In 1912 he be¬ 
came a member of the firm of Matson, Gates & Ross and in this as¬ 
sociation continued until January 1, 1915, when the firm became 
Matson, Kane & Ross. In 1922 the present firm was formed. 

Mr. Ross is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the 
Rotary Club, Oriental Lodge, No. 500, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite, 
Oriental Chapter, No. 147, and the Murat Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine. 

The marriage of Mr. Ross to Miss Maud E. Davis took place 
at Indianapolis, May 6, 1906. There are four children, Richard 
W., Lauretta M., James E. and Elizabeth Jane. 


535 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Dexlieimer 

JOHN C. RUCKELSHAUS 


536 




INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN C. RUCKELSHAUS 

T OHN C. RUCKELSHAUS, member of the firm of Ryan, 
** Ruckelsliaus and Ryan, attorneys, and prominently identified 
with political and civic affairs of Indianapolis and Indiana, was 
born in Indianapolis, March 11, 1873, son of Conrad and Caroline 
(Karle) Rnckelshans. His early education was obtained in the 
public schools of the city of his birth, after which he attended 
DePauw University for a period of two years and then the Indiana 
Law School, from which he graduated in 1895, with the degree of 
Bachelor of Laws. 

Immediately following his graduation from law school, Mr. 
Rnckelshans was admitted to the Indiana bar and in the practice 
of law he has been continuously engaged to this writing, although 
during all of this time he has been a progressive figure in public 
life and matters relating to the civic development of the Hoosier 
Capital. 

In this connection it is of interest to here recall that Mr. 
Ruckelsliaus was, shortly after his admission to the Indiana bar, 
appointed Marion County Attorney for the poor, became Deputy 
Prosecuting Attorney about a year and a half after and then, in 
1900, was elected to the office of Prosecuting Attorney, which 
office he served for two terms. In 1905 and 1907, Mr. Rnckelshans 
was elected Chairman of the Marion County Republican Central 
Committee and in 1913 was elected a member of the Republican 
State Central Committee to serve for two years. In January, 
1908, he was appointed County Attorney for Marion County, in 
which capacity he served for two years. He was then again ap¬ 
pointed to this office June 1, 1922, to serve for one year. 

Mr. Rnckelshans has a high standing among social and fra¬ 
ternal organizations. He is a member of the Indianapolis and 
Indiana State Bar Associations, the Columbia Club, of which he 
was continuously president for six years from February 1, 1916, 
to February 1,1922; the Highland Golf and Country Club, Marion 
Club and a number of the fraternal orders. 

The marriage of Mr. Rnckelshans to Miss Anna C. Kilev took 
place at Marion, Indiana, June 8, 1898. There are three children, 
John K., Conrad R., and Thomas F. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Moorefield 

DR. KARL R. RUDDELL 


538 





INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. KARL R. RUDDELL 

J^R. KARL R. RUDDELL, son of Henry J. and Katherine 

(Shaw) Rnddell, was born at Robinson, Illinois, November 
19, 1887. 

The early education of Dr. Rnddell was secured in the public 
schools of Robinson, after which he entered the medical depart¬ 
ment of Indiana University at Indianapolis and from which he 
graduated, in 1911, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 

For one year immediately following his graduation from In¬ 
diana Universitv, Dr. Rnddell served as an interne at St. Vincent 
Hospital, after which he was for seven years house surgeon at this 
hospital. In 1919, Dr. Rnddell determined to enter the private 
practice of general surgery and in this he has since been continu¬ 
ously successful and conspicuously identified. During recent 
years Dr. Ruddell has devoted much time to abdominal surgery, 
although it is not to be understood that he has abandoned his 
general surgical work. 

Dr. Ruddell is a member of the Indianapolis Medical Society, 
the Indiana State Medical Society, and the American Medical 
Association. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the 
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the 
Highland Golf and Country Club. 

The marriage of Dr. Ruddell to Miss Margaret Hannon oc¬ 
curred at Indianapolis, November 27, 1913. There are three chil¬ 
dren, Mary Margaret, Keith and Robert. The family residence is 
at 2626 North Meridian Street. 


539 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



GERRY M. SANBORN 


Photograph by Moorefield 


540 






INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GERRY M. SANBORN 

G ERRY M. SAXBORX, president of the Sanborn Electric Company, 309-11 
North Illinois Street, son of Ashley W. and Amelia B. (Lambert) San¬ 
born, was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, March 5, 1872. His education was re¬ 
ceived in the public schools of this city, upon the completion of which he entered 
the electrical business in which he has been continuously identified to this time. 

In 1891, when but few persons were beginning to understand the practical 
advantages of electricity, Mr. Sanborn started an electrical contracting business 
of his own. During all of the thirty odd years that have since elapsed Mr. 
Sanborn has maintained a standard of business-like policies and clean cut oper¬ 
ating principles with such untiring determination that today the Sanborn Elec¬ 
tric Company is one that possesses an unusually high place in the electrical 
industry. In fact, as a result of the many years that have been devoted by the 
Sanborn Electric Company to the building of an organization which would 
possess the right kind of experience, the right human equipment, the right 
financial equipment, the right mechanical equipment and the right staff of 
executives, it is now regarded among architects and contractors and the gen¬ 
eral public as an institution well qualified to thoroughly complete whatever 
work is undertaken. 

In addition to the development of his own business, Mr. Sanborn has con¬ 
tributed much to the development of the electrical business as a whole and in the 
general improvement of standards relating to the industry. As an illustration 
of this fact and of Mr. Sanborn's desire to constantly look ahead, it is of interest 
to here note that lie has given much time and study to the standardization of 
engineering practices employed by architects and contractors in carrying out 
electrical installation. Mr. Sanborn, who has been continuously upon the board 
of directors of the National Association of Electrical Contractors since 1902, 
was for two years, from 1908-10, president of that organization and, as chair 
man of many of the association’s important committees, has acquired a com¬ 
prehensive view of the entire electrical construction business. 

The Sanborn Electric Company is extensively engaged in electrical con¬ 
tracting and engineering, although in addition the company sells both wholesale 
and retail such supplies and appliances as are usually handled by large elec¬ 
trical concerns. A bird’s eye view of the city of Indianapolis would reveal 
scores of prominent public, commercial and residential properties which have 
been electrically equipped by the Sanborn Electric Company, while many 
buildings, including banks, hotels, hospitals and clubs, scattered through the 
United States have also been electrically equipped by that organization. The 
Sanborn Electric Company is a member of the Association of Electragists, 
International; the Society for Electrical Development, and the Electrical Ap¬ 
pliance League of Indianapolis. 

Mr. Sanborn is a member of the Highland Golf and Country Club, of which 
he is now the president; the Columbia Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce, Athenaeum, Woodstock Club, and Rotary Club. In the 
Masonic fraternity he is a member of Oriental Lodge No. 500 F. & A. M., 
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

The marriage of Mr. Sanborn to Miss Grace A. Stiles occurred at Cleveland, 
Ohio. October 21, 1896. There are two daughters, Amelia G. and Elizabeth. 
The family residence is at 4701 Michigan Road. 


541 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JOSEPH C. SCHAF 


Photograph by Bretzman 


542 




INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOSEPH C. SCHAF 

JOSEPH C. SCHAF, son of Peter and Catherine (Scholl) Schaf, 
J was born in Brookville, Indiana, January 14, 1859. The father 
was the owner of and for more than fifty years managed a hotel at 
Brookville. While yet a boy the subject of this sketch moved for 
a few years from Brookville to Cincinnati, Ohio, and it, was in the 
public schools of that city that Mr. Schaf received his education. 

After completing his schooling, Mr. Schaf became associated 
with his father in the Brookville hotel, where he remained until 
1885, when he came to Indianapolis. Here he operated the old 
Mans Brewing Company until 1889, when it was sold to a syndi¬ 
cate of English capitalists; lint a few months later he organized 
and built the American Brewing Company, and this he operated 
until 1917. 

Mr. Schaf manages extensive properties in the downtown dis¬ 
trict of Indianapolis, principally hotel holdings owned by the Mans 
and Schaf family estates. He has been for twenty years a director 
in the Indiana Hotel Company, which operates the Claypool Ho¬ 
tel. His other business affiliations are wide, however, and many 
times he has been on the directorates of many Indianapolis com¬ 
panies. During recent years he has relinquished much of his ac¬ 
tivity on these directorates to devote his time to personal interests. 

Prior to the World War, Mr. Schaf and his family traveled 
extensively in Europe, living at different times in France and 
Switzerland. In fact, he has made twenty trips across the At¬ 
lantic, while other travels have taken him to all parts of the world. 
He usually spends the winter months in California. 

Mr. Schaf is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, the Indianapolis Board of Trade, the Columbia Club, the 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, and the University Club. In addition 
to these affiliations, he is a member of the Country Club of In¬ 
dianapolis and the Woodstock Country Club. 

In 1887, Mr. Schaf married Miss Josephine Maus at Indi¬ 
anapolis. They have two children, Joseph C. Schaf, Jr., and Mrs. 
Hervey Bates Perrin, nee Alice Schaf. The family home is at 
1410 North Delaware Street, Indianapolis. 


543 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



ELI SCHLOSS 


Photograph by Moorefield 


544 







INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ELI SCHLOSS 

pLI SCHLOSS, vice-president and secretary of Scliloss Broth- 

eis Company, clothiers, was born at Ligonier, Indiana, Janu¬ 
ary 31, 1875, son of Leopold and Mollie (Strauss) Scliloss. His 
business training was obtained at the Metropolitan College of 
Chicago, Illinois. Upon the completion of this course he accepted 
employment in Chicago and there remained until 1896. In 1897 
he located at Monmouth, Illinois, where he became interested in a 
mercantile establishment, which is still continued under the name 
of Scliloss Brothers and which is still managed from the Indianap¬ 
olis establishment. 

Through his connection with various civic and business or¬ 
ganizations of Indianapolis, Mr. Scliloss has exerted a far-reach¬ 
ing influence for the betterment and growth of this city. He is a 
member of the Indianapolis Lodge of Elks, Columbia Club, 
Iloosier Athletic Club, Kiwanis Club, Optimist Club, of which he 
is a charter member, and the Chamber of Commerce, of which he is 
a member of the Industrial Committee, and the Jewish Federa¬ 
tion, of which he is a director. He also holds a place on the execu¬ 
tive committee of the Indianapolis Boy Scouts of America and is 
troop committeeman of Boy Scout Troop No. 65. The Masonic 
affiliations of Mr. Scliloss include Oriental Chapter, F. & A. M., 
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine, the Consistory at Quincy, 
Illinois, and Monmouth Lodge, No. 37, F. & A. M. at Monmouth, 
Illinois. 

On July 20, 1903, Mr. Scliloss married Miss Clare Rose, at 
Chicago, Illinois. There is one son, William L. Scliloss. The 
family residence is 2929 Washington Boulevard. 


545 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



SOL SCHLOSS 


Photograph by Moorefield 


546 







INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


SOL SCHLOSS 

COL SCHLOSS, widely known as an enterprising clothier of 
Indiana, and president and treasurer of Scldoss Brothers Com¬ 
pany, was born at Ligonier, Indiana, April 27,1872, son of Leopold 
and Mollie (Strauss) Scldoss. Leaving school at the age of four¬ 
teen years, he began work in a store at Sherwood, Ohio, sleeping- 
in the store and boarding at the home of his employer. He later 
worked at Ligonier, Waterloo and Goshen, Indiana, after which 
he accepted employment in Chicago where he remained until a 
position was opened to him at Clinton, Iowa. 

In 1893 the condition of Mr. Scldoss’ health became such as 
to demand a complete rest and change and so he went to Europe 
for a period of several months. Upon his return to the United 
States he went into business at Titusville, Pennsylvania, in which 
city he remained until 1897, when he opened a store at Monmouth, 
Illinois, which is still conducted under the management of the 
Scldoss Brothers Company. 

In 1912 Mr. Scldoss came to Indianapolis and here purchased 
the business of Bliss-Swain & Company, which has since continued 
under his direction and that of his brother, Mr. Eli Scldoss, under 
the name of Scldoss Brothers Co. 

The civic activities and interests of Mr. Scldoss include mem¬ 
bership in the Chamber of Commerce, the Budget Committee of 
the Community Chest, the National Association of Retail Cloth¬ 
iers, of which he is vice-president, the Columbia Club, Hoosier 
Athletic Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Murat Temple of 
the Mystic Shrine, and the Elks Lodge, is a Vice-President of the 
Marion County Tuberculosis Society and a director of the Ameri¬ 
can House. 

On February 24, 1897, Mr. Scldoss married Miss Ray Birken- 
stein at Chicago. There is a daughter, Mrs. E. H. Weil, who re¬ 
sides at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a son, Leonard, a student 
at Sliortridge High School. The Scldoss family home is at 3919 
Washington Boulevard. 


547 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



HOWARD SCHURMANN 


Photograph by Bretzman 


548 







INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HOWARD SCHURMANN 

TJOWARD SCHURMANN, manufacturer, president of the In- 
^ dependent Concrete Pipe Company, 201-5 North West Street, 
was born at Indianapolis on December 5, 1875, son of Charles and 
Maria (Howard) Sclmrmann. He was the grandson of Gustav 
Schurmann, who came to Indianapolis in 1849, and at the time of 
his death in 1870, was one of the largest property holders in the 
city. Educated in the Indianapolis Public Schools, Mr. Schur¬ 
mann studied at the Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, 
Indiana, and at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. 

Becoming associated with the Van Camp Hardware Com¬ 
pany in 1898, Mr. Schurmann remained with that organization 
until 1901, when he became secretary of the Barry Saw Com¬ 
pany. In 1907 he left the saw company to become chief engineer 
of the Reinforced Concrete Pipe Company of Jackson, Michigan, 
and was associated with this company until 1912. In 1913 he was 
sales manager of the Concrete Products Corporation of Chicago, 
Illinois, and in 1914 organized the Independent Concrete Pipe 
Company in this city and became its vice-president. He was vice- 
president until 1918, when he became president of the company. 

The field of operation of the Independent Concrete Pipe 
Company covers the entire United States east of the Rocky Moun¬ 
tains, also Canada and northern portions of Mexico, besides oc¬ 
casional work in foreign countries. 


Among the more important and recent installations of their 
concrete pipe which have attracted a great deal of attention among 
engineers and municipal authorities have been those in New York 
City; Muncie, Hammond and Kokomo, Indiana; Detroit, Flint, 
Pontiac, Jackson and Lansing, Michigan; Oklahoma City, Oklaho¬ 
ma; Decatur and East St. Louis, Illinois; Milwaukee, Janesville 
and LaCrosse, Wisconsin; Toledo, Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio; 
Lebanon, Pennsylvania; Gary, Indiana, for the U. S. Steel Cor¬ 
poration, and Chicago, Illinois, for the Union Stock Yards and 
Transit Company. 


Mr. Schurmann is a member of the American Concrete Insti¬ 
tute, the American Concrete Pipe Association, the Indianapolis 
Chamber of Commerce, the Columbia Club, and the Signa Nu fra¬ 
ternity. He is a Republican. 


On December 9, 1902, Mr. Schurmann married Miss Nelle 
Ruth Samuels at Indianapolis. They have one daughter, Louise 
Ruth Schurmann. 


549 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



E. J. SCOONOVER 


Photograph by Moorefield 


550 








INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDWARD J. SCOONOVER 

C DWARD J. SCOONOVER, general agent of the Federal Surety Company 
■I—< for the State of Indiana, and prominently identified with the insurance 
business of Indianapolis, was born at Lafayette, Indiana, January 25, 1873, son 
of Martina and Minerva (Graves) Scoonover. His early education was ob¬ 
tained in the public schools of the county of his birth, after which he entered 
Purdue I niversity. In 1892 he became engaged in the real estate and insur¬ 
ance business at Lafayette and this work continued for a period of ten years, 
when he came to Indianapolis to pursue the casualty insurance business. 

The Federal Surety Company, the home offices of which are at Davenport, 
Iowa, is engaged exclusively in the writing of surety and casualty insurance 
and to this Mr. Scoonover gives the major portion of his time, although in con¬ 
ducting a general agency business, he also deals extensively in all lines of in¬ 
surance, with the exception of life underwriting. 

As a citizen who has, since his first arrival in the Iloosier Capital, been 
keenly interested in civic affairs, Mr. Scoonover has given untiringly of his 
time and energy to charitable and philanthropic work. During the World 
War he served as a captain on various teams relating to the raising of funds 
for the War Chest and the sale of Victory and Liberty loan bonds. He was a 
team captain and member of a number of committees working for the Red Cross 
and since the Armistice has been closely associated with all Community Chest 
undertakings and activities. 

Mr. Scoonover has always taken an interest in the club life of Indian¬ 
apolis and is now a member of the Marion Club and the Rotary Club. In the 
Masonic Fraternity he is a member of Octagon Lodge No. 511 F. & A. M. at 
Lafayette, Indiana. In the York Rite branch of Masonry is a Past Commander 
of Raper Commandery Knights Templar, was Captain of the famous Raper Com¬ 
mandery Drill Corps from 1913 to 1923 and is at the present time Deputy 
Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery K. T. of Indiana. He is the 
active member in Indiana of the Grand Council Order of DeMolay for Boys; 
in 1921 was Illustrious Potentate of Murat Temple A. A. O. N. M. S.; was 
Thrice Potent Master of Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection Ancient Ac¬ 
cepted Scottish Rite 1921-1922 and in September 1920 in Chicago, Illinois 
was elected an Honorary Member of the Supreme Council Northern Masonic 
Jurisdiction Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite 33rd. Degree. 


The marriage of Mr. Scoonover to Miss Mary S. Feeley took place at 
Lafayette, Indiana March 7, 1894. Mr. and Mrs. Scoonover reside at 563 High¬ 
land Drive. 


551 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 


WILLIAM R. SECKER 


552 





INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


WILLIAM R. SECKER 

YV7TLLIAM R. SECKER, General Manager of the Hotel Lin- 
W coin, was born on August 10. 1869, in Gnelpli, Ontario, Cana¬ 
da, a beautiful city seventy miles west of Toronto, son of Robert 
W. and Sarah Newman Seeker. In the Canadian grade schools of 
his native town he received his early education and later went to 
the Upper Canada College in Toronto. 

In 1890 he was appointed Steward of the Waldorf-Astoria 
Hotel in New York City and later was advanced to Night Manager 
of the hotel, leaving the Waldorf in 1894 to become Manager of 
the Imperial Hotel, where he remained for five years. From this 
hotel he resigned to go with a scientific expedition on an investi¬ 
gating tour through Mexico, Central and South America and 
Cuba, traveling thousands of miles on horseback and litera 
through Chile, the Argentine and Brazil, and by boat up the Ama¬ 
zon River for hundreds of miles, leaving there to take an active 
part in the Spanish-American War in Cuba. 

Returning to Canada, he operated for two years three summer 
hotels, one at Dorsett on the Lake of Bays, another at Big Bay 
Point at Barrie, and the third, Bon Echo Inn, on Lake Massanaga, 
sixty miles from Kingston. 

Upon his arrival in the United States he came to Indianapolis, 
becoming Manager of the University Club. Later he became 
Manager of the Columbia Club, and after a few years went to At¬ 
lanta, Georgia, where he opened and managed the Ansley Hotel, a 
new hostelry in that city, for six years, leaving there to assume the 
general managership of the Hotel Lincoln when it was completed 
in 1918. The affability and diplomacy of Mr. Seeker in making 
the guests of the hotel over which he presides feel at home has 
brought him many honors among the traveling public. In fact, 
Mr. Seeker has the distinction of being one of the best known hotel 
men of the country at this time. 

Mr. Seeker married Miss Helene Evelyn Sheffield of Toronto, 
Canada, August 16, 1904. They have two sons, William Seeker, 
Jr., and Phillip Seeker. The family resides at 3209 North New 
Jersey Street. 


553 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OP AFFAIRS 



RUSSEL M. SEEDS 


Photograph by Bretsman 


554 












INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


RUSSEL M. SEEDS 


A N institution is the lengthened shadow of 
one man.” Aptly this applies to the Rus¬ 
sel M. Seeds Company, Indiana’s oldest adver¬ 
tising agency, whose founder, Russel M. Seeds, 
was the first man in Indiana to engage pro¬ 
fessionally in the application of the principles 
of advertising to the national extension of sales 
for Indiana manufacturers. 

When Mr. Seeds opened his office in Indi¬ 
anapolis in 1901 and started to offer profes¬ 
sional advertising service, there were very few 
Indiana manufacturers who were doing any 
national advertising, and these few had connec¬ 
tion with the few agencies equipped to give 
advice and service in New York and Chicago. 
Advertising was then but little understood as 
a factor in building good will and reducing tlie 
cost of making sales, and it required not only 
vision but courage to approach manufacturers 
and convince them that their previous concep¬ 
tions of advertising—amounting even to sus¬ 
picion and open distrust, in some instances— 
were fundamentally wrong. The status of 
national advertising in Indiana owes not a lit¬ 
tle to the missionary work of Russel M. Seeds 
in the days when advertising was almost an 
unknown and unwelcome quantity. 

Mr. Seeds brought to his work in the field 
of national advertising a rare equipment of 
information and observation. He was born at 
Shadeville, Ohio, in 1865. Graduating from the 
University of Michigan, he entered the news¬ 
paper profession, serving upon newspapers in 
Springfield, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., and Chi¬ 
cago, and coming to Indianapolis as the city 
editor of the Journal in the early nineties. 
Promptly he took his place as one of the lead¬ 
ing journalists of Indiana, with an influence 
and acquaintance extending into every county 
in the state, lie served a term as secretary of 
the Indiana Republican Committee, although 
journalism, not politics, continued to be his 
vocation. In 1898, when the Executive Com¬ 
mittee of the Indianapolis Monetary Conven¬ 


tion took up the work of establishing a sound 
yet more flexible system of national currency 
and finance, headquarters were established in 
Indianapolis, with Hugh II. Hanna as chairman 
and Mr. Seeds as secretary. 

Much of the change in our national system 
of finance, since the administration of Presi¬ 
dent McKinley, has been due to the education 
and agitation among bankers and business men 
carried on in Indianapolis by this committee. 

In 1899 he became associate editor of the 
Indianapolis Press, confining his work largely 
to the writing of editorials, and in this phase 
of journalism he has continued more or less 
active to this day, in spite of his commercial 
engagements. Always an omnivorous reader, 
with a retentiveness of memory seldom equaled, 
his gifts of observation, comment and clear, 
forceful writing have given the finished touch 
to many of those articles, necessarily anony¬ 
mous, which are known merely as ‘‘editorials,” 
in the columns of Indianapolis newspapers. 

Late in the nineties, Mr. Seeds became 
associated with the Atlas Engine Works, in the 
promotion of its export and domestic sales, and 
in charge of its advertising. Here he began 
the actual technical training in advertising as 
applied to sales methods, which later developed 
into an agency of his own, furnishing advertis¬ 
ing advice, sales helps and plans for utilizing 
advertising as a selling force to manufacturers 
of various descriptions. Gradually, as his clien¬ 
tele enlarged, the Seeds organization grew, and 
in 1904 it was incorporated as the Russel M. 
Seeds Company with Mr. Seeds as president. 
During the past two years, ill health has com¬ 
pelled him to spend much of his time in the 
Bahamas and to relinquish the more active 
part of his large advertising affairs to others 
in his organization. He still continues, how¬ 
ever, as the president of the Russel M. Seeds 
Company and is, by general consent and recog¬ 
nized length of service, the dean of the adver¬ 
tising fraternity of Indiana. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



HARRY A. SHARP 


Photograph, by Bretsman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HARRY A. SHARP 

EVERYONE in Indianapolis who rides the street cars knows 
^ Harry A. Sharp, of the Wangelin-Sharp Company, 443 Vir¬ 
ginia Avenue. Possibly not all are personally acquainted with 
him, but surely all are familiar with the Wangelin-Sharp “ con¬ 
versations' ’ organized by the firm for street-car advertising 
purposes. 

Ford cars had never been heard of when Mr. Sharp was born 
on February 3, 1891, at Meade. Kansas, son of Alexander and 
Laura (Hoober) Sharp, but they were destined to pla 3 r a leading 
part in his career. 

Mr. Sharp attended the common schools at Brook, Indiana, 
but before completing high school left home, at the age of sixteen, 
and went to South Bend to work. Almost immediately, however, 
he realized the need of more education and entered DePauw 
Academy at Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1910, having 
worked his way through. 

He returned to Brook, but after two years felt that a small 
town held little or no prospects for a young man, and came to 
Indianapolis. In March, 1913, he formed his initial acquaintance 
with Ford motor cars by obtaining employment in the shipping 
room at the Indianapolis branch of the Ford Motor Company. 

“Soon after this,” says Mr. Sharp, recalling these early days, 
“the liberal policy of Henry Ford of five dollars per day for all 
employees made life very sweet, this being an increase from nine 
dollars per week.” 

He advanced successfully to the posts of bookkeeper, cashier, 
stock-keeper, and service department. While he was in the service 
department, a contract was offered to him to select any partner 
from two or three other employees and go into the business of 
selling Fords. Harry J. Wangelin was selected, and the two young 
men secured the contract on September 18, 1917, for six hundred 
cars a year. 

The Wangelin-Sharp business lias grown and prospered until 
in 1922 the firm sold in excess of fifteen hundred new Ford cars at 
retail, a record unequalled by any other Ford dealer in the United 
States operating in a territory of similar size to that in which the 
Wangelin-Sharp Company does business. They now own their 
own building and employ approximately sixty mechanics and 
salesmen. 

Mr. Sharp married Miss Helen Catherine Greene, of Indi¬ 
anapolis, in April, 1915, and they have one son, Donald. Their 
home is at 3744 North Meridian Street. Mr. Sharp is a member 
of the Mystic Tie Lodge, F. & A. M.; Scottish Rite, Murat Temple 
of the Mystic Shrine, Columbia Club, Kiwanis Club, Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, and the Highland Golf and Country Club. 


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OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph hy Moorefield 

ROBERT HARTLEY SHERWOOD 






INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ROBERT HARTLEY SHERWOOD 

ROBERT HARTLEY SHERWOOD, president of the Sher¬ 
wood Coal Company, the Central Indiana Coal Company and 
the Caloric Coal Company, and actively identified with the coal 
mining industry in Indiana and Illinois, was born in Bucks Coun¬ 
ty, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1876, son of Robert H. and Sarah 
(Palmer) Sherwood. His early education was obtained at a 
Friends’ School, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after which he 
attended the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute at Brooklyn, New 
York, from which he graduated in 1896 with the degree of Elec¬ 
trical Engineer. He then attended Cornell University at Ithaca, 
New York, and from this institution graduated in 1897 with the 
degree of Mechanical Engineer. 

Following the completion of his college career, Mr. Sherwood 
then engaged in various undertakings until 1905, when he entered 
the railroad contracting business in New York City and in this 
independently continued until 1912. In that year Mr. Sherwood 
went to Danville, Illinois and there first became engaged in the 
coal business as one of the original pioneers of the country to be 
identified with what has since come to be known as “strip mining.” 
For eight years Mr. Sherwood remained at Danville but in 1920 
disposed of his interests at that place and removed to Indianapolis, 
here to personally manage and operate the coal companies prev¬ 
iously mentioned in this review. 

Mr. Sherwood is President of the Indiana Coal Producers 
Association, the state association of strip mine owners, and is a 
member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical 
Engineers, the American Mining Congress and the Columbia and 
Woodstock Clubs of this city. 

The marriage of Mr. Sherwood to Miss Marjorie Ferguson 
Brown took place at New York City, January 15, 1908. There 
are seven children, Alexandria, Louise, Robert Hartley III, Alida, 
Sarah, David and Samuel. The Sherwood family residence is at 
2847 North Meridian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



RICHARD A. SHIRLEY 


Photograph hy Bretzman 






INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


RICHARD A. SHIRLEY 

D I CHARD A. SHIRLEY was born at Martinsville, Indiana, 
* ^ June 29,1885, the son of W. S. and Sarah (Conduitt) Shirley, 
both representatives of families whose names have been promi¬ 
nently identified with Indiana history for many years. Mr. 
Shirley’s mother is the daughter of A. B. Conduitt, who at one 
time was a prominent wholesale merchant of Indianapolis, while 
his father, now eighty-five years of age, is one of the oldest living 
members of the Indiana Bar. 

After completing his early education in the public schools, 
Mr. Shirley entered DePauw University at Greencastle, from 
which he was graduated in 1907 with the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts. Throughout his college career he maintained an unusually 
high scholastic average, and upon the completion of his work at 
the university, was awarded Phi Beta Kappa honors. 

In the fall of 1907, Mr. Shirley matriculated at Harvard Law 
School, it being his intention at that time to follow the practice of 
law, but after a short period returned from the Eastern univer¬ 
sity to Indianapolis to follow a business career. Accepting a posi¬ 
tion in July, 1909, as secretary-treasurer of the W. H. Johnson & 
Son Company, heating, ventilating, and power equipment en¬ 
gineers and contractors, he soon became an indispensable member 
of the firm. Seven years later, when Mr. W. H. Johnson retired 
from the business, Mr. Shirley assumed the presidency of the com¬ 
pany, the position he now holds. 

During his business career in Indianapolis, Mr. Shirley has 
been prominently identified with civic affairs. In 1921 he was a 
member of the Board of Works of the City of Indianapolis. He is 
a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Hoosier Athletic 
Club, Columbia Club, Kiwanis Club, Hoosier Motor Club, the 
Athenaeum, Indiana Democratic Club, and Phi Kappa Psi fra¬ 
ternity. His Masonic affiliations are Mystic Tie Lodge, Ancient 
Accepted Scottish Rite (Yallev of Indianapolis), Murat Temple 
of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Central Avenue 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 

On July 3, 1908, Mr. Shirley married Miss Ethel Thornburg, 
of Bluff ton, Indiana, who was a student at DePauw University 
at the time Mr. Shirley attended that institution. Mrs. Shirley is 
a granddaughter of Peter Studebaker, at one time a widely known 
banker and farmer of Wells County, Indiana. There are two 
children—John William and Sarah Ann. 

The family resides at 1202 North New Jersey Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



BURKE G. SLAYMAKER 


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TNDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


BURKE G. SLAYMAKER 

^ l RKE G. SLAYMAKER, attorney specializing in the prac¬ 
tice of insurance law, was born at Elizabeth, Harrison County, 
Indiana, March 19, 1878, son of Henry and Harriet Josephine 
(Low) Slaymaker. His early education was obtained in the pub¬ 
lic schools of Elizabeth, after which for a few months he attended 
the Ohio Valley Normal College at Cory don, Indiana, and then 
the Indiana Law School at Indianapolis from which he graduated 
in 1901, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. 

Innnediatey following his graduation from law school, Mr. 
Slaymaker entered the general practice of law at Anderson, In¬ 
diana, in association with Mr. John W. Lovett, under the firm 
name of Lovett & Slaymaner. In 1913 Mr. Slaymaker came to 
Indianapolis where he has since largely confined his professional 
energies to the legal branch of the insurance business. 


Mr. Slaymaker is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Asso¬ 
ciation, the American Bar Association, the Columbia Club and the 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which, in 1910, he 
was a member of the Grand Lodge of the United States. He is 
also a member of the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church. 

In addition to the practice of law Mr. Slaymaker has devoted 
much time to the preparation of a number of articles contributed 
to the Albany Law Journal, of Albany, New York, the Central 
Law Journal of St. Louis, and the American Law Review of New 
York, writing particularly concerning matters of current legal 
interest. He has also contributed a number of articles to the 
Encyclopedia of Evidence, fourteen volume work, distributed ex¬ 
clusively to the profession and the law libraries of the United 


The marriage of Mr. Slaymaker to Miss Ethel Colvin took 
place at Elizabeth, August 14, 1898. There is one daughter, Mar¬ 
tha Washington. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



OBIE J. SMITH 


Photograph by Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


OBIE J. SMITH 

/"ABIE J. SMITH, president of the 0. J. Smith Realty Company, 

114 North Delaware Street, was born in Indianapolis on Janu¬ 
ary 28, 1879, son of John J. Smith and Ida G. (Adams) Smith. 
The father was in the real estate business several years after com¬ 
ing to Indianapolis from Pennsylvania in the early seventies. 

Mr. Smith, the subject of this sketch, received his education 
in the Indianapolis public schools, graduating from the old Indi¬ 
anapolis High School, now known as Shortridge High School in 
1898. While attending high school he played on the football team, 
participated in other athletics and was otherwise active in school 
affairs as evidenced by the fact that he was president of his grad¬ 
uating class. 

In February, 1899, Mr. Smith became associated with the J. S. 
Cruse Company, real estate firm with which he remained for about 
three years when he formed a partnership with J. J. Schmid under 
the firm name of Schmid & Smith and continued in this firm for 
sixteen years until 1918, when he founded the O. J. Smith Realty 
Company of which he is the president. 

Mr. Smith is a director of the Continental National Bank 
and is a member of the board of directors of the Sterling Fire In¬ 
surance Company. For three years Mr. Smith was president of 
the Indianapolis Association of Fire Insurance agents and one 
year the Indiana State Insurance Association. 

He is a member of the Indianapolis Board of Trade, the Indi¬ 
anapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
the Highland Golf and Country Club, the Rotary Club, and the 
Masonic organizations. 

Mr. Smith married Miss Edith M. Pearson, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. George C. Pearson, October 29, 1902, at Indianapolis. 
Tliev have two children, George Pearson Smith and Obie J. Smith, 
Jr. The family home is at 3552 North Pennsylvania Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



WALTER EDGAR SMITH 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF /AFFAIRS 


WALTER EDGAR SMITH 

^^/’ALTER EDGAR SMITH, contracting builder, son of George 

M. Smith and Delpliina (Barnard) Smith, was born on a 

farm located in Warren Township, Marion County, Indiana, 

April 24, 1876. When twelve years of age he graduated from the 

country school, of which his father was a trustee for several terms. 

He then entered the Irvington High School, being president of 

his class, and later, at the age of sixteen years, entered Butler 

College, taking the scientific course. George M. Smith, father 

of the subject of this sketch, was born in Seidendorf, Germany. 

The mother was born in Hancock County, Indiana, of French 

ancestrv. 

*/ 

Upon the completion of his college career, Mr. Smith con¬ 
ducted a general store for a period of approximately two years 
but, not having a likeness for this kind of work, entered the house 
contracting business when but twenty-four years of age and in 
this he has continuously engaged to this time, during which 
period he has constructed over six hundred houses in the city of 
Indianapolis in addition to many business blocks and flats. 

At three different times Mr. Smith has been a member of the 

Indiana State Militia and during the World War assisted in the 

creation of Company B, which was recently discharged from 

service. He is an earnest follower of the principles of Thomas 

Jefferson and is actively identified with the social and political 

life of the city of his residence. An old college professor used to 

say of him ‘Tie always faces things based on the law of average and 

is usually found on the side of the successful.” 

*/ 

Mr. Smith is a member of Oriental Lodge No. 500, F. & A. M., 
Keystone Chapter, Raper Commandery, Scottish Rite, and 
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the 
Indiana Democratic Club, of which he has been a director and 
president; the Commercial Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, the 
Athenaeum, Delta Tau Delta college fraternity and the Irving¬ 
ton Methodist Church. 


567 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



ALBERT G. SNIDER 


Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ALBERT G. SNIDER 

ALBERT Q SNIDER, president and treasurer of tlie Hide 

Leather and Belting Company, Inc., was born in Indianap¬ 
olis, February 23, 1878, son of George W. and Alice E. (Secrest) 
Snider. 

He received his education in the Indianapolis public schools 
and later attended Butler College. He left Butler College, how¬ 
ever, upon the death of his father, which occurred on July 5, 1898, 
and became actively connected with the Hide Leather and Belting 
Company, which had been formed by his father. In 1910, when 
the company was incorporated as the Hide Leather and Belting 
Company, lie became president. 

Mr. Snider is actively interested in other business concerns in 
this and other cities, being president of the Anti-Friction Com¬ 
pany of this city and vice-president of the Central States Leather 
Company of Columbus, Indiana. 

In civic and business affairs Mr. Snider has taken an impor¬ 
tant part. He is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, the Board of Trade of this city, and the American Leather 
Belting Exchange, the principal organization in the leather belt¬ 
ing: industry. As a director of the Young Men’s Christian Associa- 
tion he has been instrumental in enlarging the scope of that or¬ 
ganization in its work in Indianapolis. 

He is active in the club life of the city, being a member of the 
Columbia Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Woodstock 
Country Club, and the Rotary Club. During his college days he 
became a member of the Delta Tan Delta fraternity. In politics 
he is a Republican. Mr. Snider is one of those executives who 
believes in keeping in physical trim and is one of the most enthus¬ 
iastic golfers of the city. 

Mr. Snider married Elizabeth Richards on January 14, 1909, 
at Indianapolis. They have one son, Charles R. The family home 
is at 3741 North Meridian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



DR. J. F. SPAUNHURST 


Photograph hy Bretsman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN F. SPAUNHURST D. 0. 

JOHN FRANKLIN SPAUNHURST, Doctor of Osteopathy, 
J and for many years prominently identified among osteopathic 
physicians throughout the country, was born at Fulton, Missouri, 
April 3, 1867, son of John Frederick and Mary (Herring) Spaun- 
hurst. His primary education was obtained in the public schools 
of Fulton, following which he attended Westminster College at 
Fulton, the State Teachers College at Kirksville, Missouri, and 
the Missouri State University at Columbia, Missouri. 

Immediately following the completion of the above mentioned 
prescribed courses, Dr. Spaunliurst became Superintendent of 
City Schools in Missouri and in this capacity served for the ensu¬ 
ing eight years, at the end of which time he entered the American 
School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, from which he grad¬ 
uated June 1, 1900, with the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy. 

On July 15, 1900, Dr. Spaunliurst came to Indianapolis and 
here established the Spaunliurst Institute of Osteopathy which he 
has since, with an efficient staff, continuously conducted in the 
State Life Building. 

Evidencing that Dr. Spaunliurst stands high in the counsels 
of his profession it is of interest to here recall that he was appoint¬ 
ed by Governor Thomas R. Marshall in 1908, to membership on 
the indiana State Board of Medical Registration and Examina¬ 
tion and, in 1912, reappointed to this position bv Governor Samuel 
M. Ralston. In addition to this, Dr. Spaunliurst has been signally 
honored in his profession by having been elected to practically 
every office within the gift of the Indiana State Osteopathic As¬ 
sociation, from president down. 

Dr. Spaunliurst is a member of the Indiana State Osteopathic 
Association, American Osteopathic Association, International 
Abrams Electronic Medical Society, Central States Abrams Elec¬ 
tronic Medical Society and the Western States Abrams Electronic 
Medical Society. He is also a member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 
398, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite, Raper Commandery and Murat 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine, being a life member of the last men¬ 
tioned, and the Kiwanis Club. 

The marriage of Dr. Spaunliurst to Miss Harriett S. Miller, 
of Kirksville, Missouri, occurred at that place, August 25, 1896. 
Mrs. Spaunliurst died July 31, 1923. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



EDGAR GEORGE SPINK 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDGAR GEORGE SPINK 


T HE subject of this sketch was born in 
Washington, Davies County, Indiana, 
February 7, 1867, his parents being Michael 
Urban and Rosanna Morgan Spink. Ilis early 
life was spent in Davies and Martin Counties, 
Indiana, and in his young manhood he moved 
to Kentucky. There he engaged in business in 
the city of Lexington. He organized a Com¬ 
mercial College in that city, in which lie became 
an instructor, and later organized a trust com¬ 
pany, with which he was associated for some 
time, and while so associated became interested 
in the building enterprise, and erected a num¬ 
ber of small dwellings which he disposed of on 
the installment plan. While a resident of Lex¬ 
ington he married Miss Ella S. Reordan. 

Seeking larger fields of endeavor, Mr. Spink 
moved to Indianapolis in 1901 where he has re¬ 
sided ever since. Soon after coming here he 
entered into the real estate and building busi¬ 
ness and organized the Home Building & 
Realty Company, of which he became president, 
and in 1912 severed his connection with that 
company and organized the E. G. Spink Com¬ 
pany, of which he became the president, and 
has been re-elected to that office every year 
since. One of the first building projects of 
consequence which he undertook was the erec¬ 
tion of the Fletcher Sanitarium at 1140 E. Mar¬ 
ket Street, which sanitarium for a number of 
years has been under the management and con¬ 
trol of his sister, Dr. Mary A. Spink. 

In the year 1914 he began the erection of 
apartment, and apartment hotel buildings on 
a large scale, and since that time has continu¬ 
ously pursued the enterprise. Even during 
the World War, when the housing proposition 
was most critical and financial conditions un¬ 
settled, and in the face of most discouraging 
conditions, the E. G. Spink Company, by the 
guiding genius of Mr. Spink, was one of the 
few building organizations of Indianapolis that 
continued without cessation to erect additional 


apartment buildings to meet the urgent de¬ 
mand of the public. 

By the organization of subsidiary com¬ 
panies, the E. G. Spink Company being the par¬ 
ent company, Mr. Spink has caused to be erect¬ 
ed more than sixty apartment buildings in the 
city of Indianapolis, and there are now under 
his immediate direction and management, in 
active operation fifty-seven separate and dis¬ 
tinct apartment building and apartment hotel 
buildings, containing 1,458 separate apart¬ 
ments, which are occupied by more than 4,000 
residents of Indianapolis. These buildings now 
house over one per cent of the entire popula¬ 
tion of Indianapolis. 

Air. Spink originated in this city, and put 
into operation the small apartment idea, which 
has proven to be very popular and attractive, 
lie also originated the so-called “Batchelor 
Apartments” for women, which have proven to 
be of great service and convenience to that 
class of our citizens. 

Mr. Spink has been a careful and ardent 
student of the science of architecture, keeping 
in mind the purpose of building and equiping 
comfortable homes for his tenants, and he has 
worked out the initial plans of most of the 
apartment buildings which he has erected. A 
number of the buildings that have been erected 
under his guidance and management are ar¬ 
chitectural ornaments and monuments to the 
capital city of Indiana. In his constructive ac¬ 
tivities in the building line, he has led all oth¬ 
ers, and his record of achievements is without 
parallel in the West. 

Mr. Spink is a constructive and progressive 
business man, and in the way of providing 
homes he has been a public benefactor. He 
stands for the best interests of Indianapolis and 
is public spirited in the fullest sense of that 
term. He is a member of the Indianapolis 
Chamber of Commerce, the Columbia Club, the 
Indianapolis Real Estate Board and the 
Knights of Columbus. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Dexlieimer 

WILLIAM H. STAFFORD 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


WILLIAM H. STAFFORD 

^Y/ILLIAM H. STAFFORD, member of the firm of Stone, 
Stafford & Stone, general insurance agents, was born at Buf¬ 
falo, New York, December 13, 1882, son of James B. and Harriet 
(Holloway) Stafford. He received liis education in the public 
schools of the city of his birth, after which he was variously em¬ 
ployed until 1903 when he came to Indianapolis. 

Shortly after coming to the Indiana capital, Mr. Stafford 
became identified with the insurance business. He engaged inde¬ 
pendently until 1911 when he became associated with Mr. Charles 
S. Stone, of the firm of Zener & Stone. In 1917, upon the reor¬ 
ganization of Zener & Stone, he was taken into partnership by 
Mr. Charles S. and Mr. James Blake Stone under the firm name 
of Stone, Stafford & Stone, of which he has continuously been a 
member to this writing. 

Mr. Stafford is a member of the University Club, Indianap¬ 
olis Country Club, and the Dramatic Club. 

The marriage of Mr. Stafford to Miss Edith Wilson took 
place in Indianapolis, June 4, 1908. There are four children, 

Edith Ann, William H., Jr., Sybil and Barbara. 


INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



FRANK D. STALNAKER 


Photograph by Moorefield, 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRANK D. STALNAKER 

YV7ELL exemplifying tlie spirit of enterprise and progressiveness 
** that has conserved the splendid advancement of Indianap¬ 
olis, Frank 1). Stalnaker is listed high among the representative 
business men of the city. Mr. Stalnaker’s advancement in con¬ 
nection with the business affairs has been coincident with the 
growth of the capital city, to whose interests no citizen is more 
loyal than he whose name initiates this paragraph. 

Born at Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa, on December 31, 
1859, the son of Lemuel E. and Martha (Jamieson) Stalnaker, the 
subject of this article gained his early education in the public 
schools of Sioux City, Iowa, and Cambridge City, Indiana. After 
completing the high school course he followed a business course at 
Indianapolis, in which city he has continuously directed his ener¬ 
gies and through the agency of which he has attained a splendid 
success and an impregnable hold upon popular confidence and 
esteem. 

Immediately following his graduation from business college, 
Mr. Stalnaker secured a clerical position in a local bank institu¬ 
tion, and he continued to be actively associated with bank affairs 
in various capacities until, upon the death of William Wallace, 
he was appointed to succeed the latter as receiver of the Fletcher 
& Sharpe Bank. He continued in this capacity until the affairs of 
the institution were finally settled in 1893. 

In 1885 51 r. Stalnaker became associated with Mr. James W. 
Lilly under the firm name of Lilly & Stalnaker and engaged in the 
hardware business. Through careful and able administration that 
company has become one of the leading wholesale and retail hard¬ 
ware houses of Indianapolis. During the growth of this business, 
however, 51 r. Stalnaker continued to be identified with banking 
interests, and in June, 1906, he was elected president of the Capitol 
National Bank, which institution he headed until July 1, 1911, 
when it was merged with the Indiana National Bank, of which 
he has continuously been president. 

5ir. Stalnaker has given his influence and co-operation to 
almost every material advancement of the city and has served as 
president or as a member of the board of directors of such organ¬ 
izations as the Merchants* Association, Indianapolis Board of 
Trade, and the Commercial Club. 

In the 5Iasonic fraternity he has completed the York and 
Scottish Rites and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


E. W. STEINHART 

CD WARD WILLIAM STEINHART, automobile manufactur- 
^ er and distributor, was born January 17, 1870, at Jackson, 
Ohio; son of Bernard Steinhardt and Margaret (Kessler) Stein- 
hardt, both of Stuttgart, Germany. 

Following tlie death of Mr, Steinhardt the mother remained 
for four years in Ohio and then removed her family of six children 
to Ransom, Illinois. Here the boy received his education in the 
local public schools, and at an early age entered upon his business 
career as a salesman of farm machinery in southern Illinois. 

In 3910 Mr. Steinhart moved to Indianapolis and organized 
the E. W. Steinhart Company as a distributing agency for the 
Cadillac and Dodge Brothers motor cars. Later subsidiary com¬ 
panies were organized at Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, South Bend, 
Lafayette and Richmond, Indiana, a chain of companies univer¬ 
sally known for absolute dependability in the automobile trade. 
In 1921 the E. W. Steinhart Companies of Indiana discontinued 
the Dodge Brothers line and assumed representation for the Oak¬ 
land Motor Car Company. In 1922 the Chevrolet line was added. 

Up to November, 1919, Mr. Steinhart was identified with the 
Premier Motor Corporation, which he aided in organizing and 
which he served as a director and vice-president. On the date 
noted, however, he withdrew from this organization in order to 
devote his entire time to the group of companies bearing his name. 
For manv years he has been an actively interested member of the 
Automobile Dealers’ Association. 

Mr. Steinhart’s hobby is the development of boys and young 
men, particularly those who through temperament and ability fail 
to grasp life’s abundant opportunities. To these Mr. Steinhart 
gives freely and effectively his aid and counsel in achieving busi¬ 
ness and social success. 

In 1890 Mr. Steinhart married Miss Mary Garvin, daughter 
of M. Garvin of Ransom, Illinois. Their family of three children 
was reduced to two by the death in France in March, 1919, of Earl 
T. Steinhart, who enlisted in the United States army in August, 
1917. The surviving children are Mrs. Howard Ewalt, Jr., and 
Mr. Willard L. Steinhart. In 1920 Mr. Steinhart married Miss 
Marie Baine. 

Mr. Steinhart is a member of the Columbia Club, Highland 
Golf and Country Clubs, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Old Timers 
Club of New York and is a Shriner of the Murat Temple. 


579 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



HARRY A. STERN 


Photograph by Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HARRY A. STERN 


LTARRY A. STERN, one of the directors of a large chain of fur- 
* ^ niture stores, of which the Reliable Furniture Company of 
this city is an important link, was horn April 12, 1880, at Newark, 
New Jersey, the son of Joseph A. and Elizabeth (Keil) Stern. 
His early education was obtained in the public schools in the city 
of his birth, after which he took a course to enable him to become 
an opera singer. This course he followed until circumstances 
forced him into business as a furniture salesman for the company 
of which he was destined to become the chief executive. 


Tn 1903, when Mr. Stern came to Indianapolis as a furniture 
salesman, his salary was placed at the munificent sum of twenty- 
five dollars per week. Singing in Indianapolis churches increased 
his income to perhaps double that figure. This spirit of aggressive¬ 
ness and energy attracted the attention of his superiors and in 
1905 he was made assistant manager of the store. From this posi¬ 
tion he became manager and later, on borrowed capital, became 
financially interested in the organization. 


The success of the Reliable Furniture Company is one of the 
interesting business romances of the commercial life of Indianap¬ 
olis. One would think that Mr. Stern was born in the furniture 
business so thoroughly acquainted is he with all tin* phases of the 
industry and so completely has he carried his artistic ideas into the 
sales end of the operation of his chain of stores. His friends say 
that he has always loved the beautiful, which trait has found full 
expression in the merchandising of furniture of the very best type. 


Mr. Stern believes that the tendency of the times is toward 
better furnished homes. It is his opinion that more beauty, more 
comfort and more utility make the home a place wherein the most 
happiness is to be obtained. “A house, without the right furnish¬ 
ings,” to quote Mr. Stern, “remains a house hut is not a home. 
Furnishings should add to the beauty of the interior as gardening, 
shrubbery and flowers add to the exterior attractiveness.” 

In connection with civic activities, Mr. Stern is a member of 
the Indianapolis Club, Broadmore Country Club, the Athenaeum, 
Hoosier Athletic Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the I. O. B. B. 
Lodge, No. 58, and is an actual past master of Monument Lodge, 
No. 657, F. & A. M. 

On August 28, 1904, Mr. Stern married Miss Helen Tuteur of 
Rennsalaer, Indiana. Mrs. Stern died December 29, 1922. There 
are three children, Oenevieve Alma, Josephine Helen, and Jack 
Teteur Stern. The family residence is 3558 Washington Boule¬ 
vard. 


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I N D I AN APOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. ALBERT E. STERNE 


D R. ALBERT E. STERNE, physician, chief 
of staff of Norways Sanatorium, Inc., at 
1820 East Tenth Street, president of the cor¬ 
poration and member of the faculty of the Indi¬ 
ana l niversity School of Medicine, was born at 
Cincinnati, Ohio, April 28, 1866, son of Charles 
F. and Eugenia (Fries) Sterne. Ilis father was 
a native of AVurtenberg. Germany, and his 
mother a native of Furth, Bavaria. Dr. 
Sterne’s maternal grandfather, a man of high 
intellectual attainments, was knighted by the 
King of Spain for discoveries in chemistry. 

Dr. Sterne received his education in the pub¬ 
lic schools of Cincinnati, Peru and Indianapolis 
till his eleventh year. His father was engaged 
in the manufacturing business and in the opera¬ 
tion of public utilities at Peru, Indiana, where 
he established the Peru AVoolen Mills. There, 
at one time, he manufactured all of the blank¬ 
ets used by the Pullman Car Company. At the 
age of eleven, Dr. Sterne became the pupil of 
Professor Kinney at Cornell School, Ithaca, 
New York. lie was a student in that school 
for one year and then complete a four years’ 
course at the Mount Pleasant Military Acad¬ 
emy at Sing Sing, New York. AVhen seventeen 
years of age he was matriculated in the literary 
department of Harvard University, graduating 
as a member of the class of 1887 with the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts, cum laude. 

In the fall of 1887, Dr. Sterne went to 
Europe to study medicine in the schools and 
universities of medicine at Strassburg, Heidel¬ 
berg, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London and Dublin, 
Ireland. In 1891, he was graduated from the 
University of Berlin with the degree of Doctor 
of Medicine, magna cum laude. While abroad 
he had the best clinical experience in leading 
hospitals on the continent and England, having- 
been an assistant in such hospitals as the 
Charity Hospital in Berlin, the Salpetriere in 
Paris, the Rotunda in Dublin, and the Queen’s 
Square in London. lie was instrumental in 
founding the Society of American Physicians 
in Berlin. 

In 1893, Dr. Sterne returned to America and 
soon afterwards established a practice in In¬ 
dianapolis. At first lie engaged in the general 
practice of medicine, but since 1897 has spe¬ 
cialized in nervous and mental diseases and 
brain surgery. In 1898 he purchased the old 
Fletcher homestead at 1820 East Tenth Street 
and there established the Norways Sanatorium. 


The institution is widely known throughout the 
country for its success in the treatment of ner¬ 
vous and mental diseases and even more for its 
thorough work in research diagnosis in medi¬ 
cine. It is primarily a hospital for general 
diagnosis. 

In 1894, Dr. Sterne was appointed to the 
chair of nervous and mental diseases in the 
Central College of Physicians and Surgeons. 
He assisted in the effort to unite the medical 
schools of Indiana and has held the professor¬ 
ship of nervous and mental diseases contin¬ 
uously. At present he occupies this position in 
the Indiana University School of Medicine. 
He is consulting neurologist in the Indiana City 
Hospital and City Dispensary (now a part of 
the Indiana University School of Medicine), at 
the Flower Mission and other Indianapolis 
hospitals. 

During these years he has been an active 
contributor to medical literature, author of 
many monographs, and has been an associate 
editor of the Journal of Nervous and Mental 
Diseases, published in New York; for several 
years was editor of the Medical Monitor. Gov¬ 
ernor Winfield T. Durbin, at the time of his 
administration, appointed Dr. Sterne Assistant 
Surgeon-General of Indiana, with the rank of 
Lieutenant-Colonel. 

The activities of Dr. Sterne in medical cir¬ 
cles brought him many honors, as evidenced 
by his election in 1910 to the presidency of the 
Ohio A T alley Medical Society, and presidency 
of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association 
in 1913. He is a member of the American Med¬ 
ical Association, the Medico-Legal Society of 
New York, the Mississippi A r alley Medical As¬ 
sociation, the Indiana State Medical Society 
and the Indianapolis Medical Society and sev¬ 
eral other scientific bodies. 

Dr. Sterne is a member of the Columbia 
Club, the University Club, the Harvard Club, 
the Highland Golf and Country Club, the 
Chamber of Commerce and the Athenaeum. In 
politics he is a Republican. 

On March 4, 1905, he married Laura Mercy 
Laughlin, daughter of James A. and Mary 
(Carey) Laughlin of Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. 
Mrs. Sterne died May 25, 1909. Several years 
afterwards, on October 18, 1913, he married 
Stella Gallup Pickrell, daughter of AValter L. 
and Ella (Hunt) Gallup, of Evanston, Illinois. 
Their home is at 1834 East Tenth Street. 


583 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



CHARLES S. STONE 


Photograph by Dexheimer 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 


CHARLES S. STONE 

A" HARLES S. STONE was born in Indianapolis, April 24, 1867, 
son of William O. and Anna Kiersted (Cady) Stone. 

His education was obtained in the public schools of the city, 
after which he was variously employed until he entered the em¬ 
ploy of Robert Zener & Co., insurance agents, July 1,1889. Robert 
Zener died in 1896, and the business was continued by Mr. Stone 
in association with Clarence M. Zener, son of Robert, under the 
firm name of Zener & Stone. Clarence died January, 1906, and 
Mr. Stone proceeded under the firm name until May 1,1917, when 
the present firm of Stone, Stafford & Stone was formed. 

The partners are Charles S., his brother Blake, who has been 
associated with the business for more than a quarter of a century 
and William H. Stafford, also associated with the office for many 
years. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JAMES BLAKE STONE 


Photograph by Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JAMES BLAKE STONE 

T AMES BLAKE STONE, member of the firm of Stone, Staf- 
^ ford & Stone, general insurance agents, was born in Indianap¬ 
olis, April 20, 1871, son of William O. and Anna Kiersted (Cadv) 
Stone. He received his education in the public schools of this city, 
after which he was employed in local banks for a period of ap¬ 
proximately ten years until 1897. 

He then became identified with the insurance firm of Zener 
& Company from which developed, in May, 1917, the present firm 
of Stone, Stafford & Stone—to include Mr. Charles S. Stone, Mr. 
William H. Stafford and Mr. James Blake Stone. In connection 
with the reference made to Robert Zener & Company, it appears 
well to here recall that the nucleus of that firm was first organized 
in 1868. 

Mr. Stone is a member of the Columbia Club, Marion Club 
and Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. M. 

The marriage of Mr. Stone to Miss Hazel L. Brown took 
place at Indianapolis, June 30, 1913. There is one son, Charles 
Blake Stone. 


587 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



ELMER W. STOUT 


Photograph hy Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ELMER W. STOUT 

pLMER \\ . STOUT, president of the Fletcher American Na¬ 
tional Bank and first vice-president of the Fletcher American 
Company, is a native Hoosier, having been born at Paoli, Indiana, 
March II, 1876, son of John T. and Adaline (McCarrell) Stout. 
His early education was obtained in the public schools of Paoli, 
after which he attended Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana, 
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts and Har¬ 
vard University, from which he graduated in 1901 with the degree 
of Bachelor of Laws. 

Immediately upon the completion of the last mentioned col¬ 
legiate course Mr. Stout moved to Indianapolis and here became 
associated with the firm of Baker & Daniels. In 1910 he formed 
a law partnership with Mr. Larz A. Whitcomb and Mr. Samuel 
Dowden and with this firm, under the name of Whitcomb, Bow¬ 
den and Stout, continued in the practice of law until April, 1916. 
when he became vice-president and counsel of the Fletcher Ameri¬ 
can National Bank. On May 19, 1923, he became president of the 
bank and at the same time vice-president of the Fletcher American 
Company. 

Mr. Stout is a member of the University Club, Country Club, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, Columbia Club, Woodstock Club and 
the John Herron Art Institute. He resides at the University Club. 


589 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



E. C. STRATHMANN 


Photograph by Bretsman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDWARD CHARLES STRATHMANN 

EDWARD CHARLES STRATHMANN, son of Frederick and 
^ 1 Alary ( Waltke) Stratlnnann, was born September 18, 1873, in 
St. Clair County, Illinois. He now is president and general man¬ 
ager of the Bedford Stone and Construction Company, one of the 
largest concerns of its kind in the United States,, which position he 
has held since 1917. Air. Stratlnnann was general superintendent 
for the company from 1906 to 1910 and vice-president previously 
to his appointment as chief executive. 

The concern’s scope of activities, according to Mr. Stratli- 
mann, extend throughout the United States, and its work is gener¬ 
al contracting, with some leaning toward specialization in build¬ 
ing construction. 

Air. Stratlnnann received his early education in the public 
schools of St. Louis, after which he entered the office of Charles 
W. Illslev, architect, where he worked and studied for a number 
of years. Air. Illslev was also an engineer, and the time Air. 
Stratlnnann spent in this office proved decidedly valuable in later 
work. For the next four years Air. Strathmann was draftsman 
and estimator, first for the Liberty Iron Works and Pullis Broth¬ 
ers, and later with George F. Bruce, stone and masonry contract¬ 
ing. In the autumn of 1898 Mr. Stratlnnann made working draw¬ 
ings and supervised the making of diagrams for the United States 
Mint at Philadelphia. In the ensuing years he did several pieces 
of important engineering work in the East. 

In November, 1901, he became identified with John Peirce, of 
New York; was superintendent on the Field Building in Chicago, 
after which he came to Indianapolis in charge of construction of 
the Post Office Building, later supervising the construction of the 
Knights of Pythias and Board of Trade buildings, after which he 
took the position of superintendent for the Bedford Company. 
His next important work was the building of the Odd Fellows’ 
Building in Indianapolis, and since that time many important 
structures have been under his supervision. 

Air. Strathmann is a member of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers, the Highland Golf and Country Club, the Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, Kiwanis Club, Scientech Club, Athenaeum, and the 
Blue Lodge, Scottish Rite, and Shrine branches of Alasonry. 

Air. Strathmann married Aliss Helen H. Fostor, formerly of 
St. Louis and the residence is at 1220 Central Avenue. 


591 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



HARRY C. STUTZ 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HARRY C. STUTZ 


H ARRY C. STUTZ, president of the H. C. S. Motor Car Company and one 
of the most important figures in the automotive industry, was born Sep¬ 
tember 12, 1876, at Ansonia, Ohio, son of Henry J. and Elizabeth S. Stutz. 

The first automotive experiments undertaken by the subject of this sketch 
began in 1897 at Dayton, Ohio, where lie conducted a small machine shop for 
some years. In 1903 he left this business to come to Indianapolis and to take 
charge of the Lindsey-Russell Axle Company. Later Mr. Stutz had some ex¬ 
perience in the experimental department of the G. & J. Tire Company, after 
which he became sales engineer for the Schebler Carburetor Company. Ilis 
next work was the designing of the American car, which was built in 
Indianapolis. 


Mr. Stutz then became associated with the Marion Motor Car Company and 
spent four years, from 1906 to 1910, as engineer and factory manager of that 
concern. During the time that Mr. Stutz was with the Marion Motor Car 
Company, he was joined by Mr. Henry Campbell, one of the officials of the 
company, in the organization of what was then known as the Stutz Auto Parts 
Company. In 1911 the Ideal Motor Car Company was organized to make the 
Stutz car. 


In 1913 the two companies had grown to such proportions that it was 
necessary to organize them under one head—The Stutz Motor Car Company, of 
which Mr. Stutz became president. Three years later, when the Stutz car had 
become a national institution, Mr. Stutz and Mr. Campbell disposed of the 
controlling stock to eastern capital, although Mr. Stutz remained active head of 
the company until 1919. 

When, in 1919, Mr. Stutz resigned from the Stutz Company, he again be¬ 
came associated with Mr. Campbell in the formation of a new company, now 
known as the II. C. S. Motor Car Company, Mr. Stutz retaining the office of 
president, and Mr. Campbell that of treasurer. 

Like the Englishman who considers his golf quite as important as his seat 
on the Stock Exchange, or like the Frenchman who finds time for art or moun¬ 
tain climbing, Mr. Stutz is an ardent believer in recreation, both mental and 
physical. Tie is a motor-boat enthusiast and an excellent trap shooter. His 
yacht at Miami, Florida, is one of the fastest and most attractive boats at that 
Southern resort, while it is said that his collection of guns here is one of the 
finest in the country. 

Mr. Stutz is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Iloosier Athletic 
Club, Indianapolis Gun Club, Chicago Yacht Club, Detroit Yacht Club, Coco- 
lobo Yacht Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, and the Detroit Athletic 
Club. He is also a member of Ancient Land Marks Lodge; Keystone Chapter, 
Raper Commanderv; a life member of the Murat Shrine, and an honorary 
member of Zorah Temple, Terre Haute. 

Mr. Stutz married Miss Clara M. Dietz, October 25, 1898, at Dayton, Ohio. 
There is one child, Emma Belle. The family resides on North Meridian Street 
at Thirty-second. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. THOMAS TAGGART 


H ON. THOMAS TAGGART, for many years 
prominently identified with political and 
substantial business affairs of Indianapolis and 
Indiana, was born in County Monaghan, Ire¬ 
land, November 17, 1856, son of Thomas and 
Martha (Kingsbury) Taggart. When but five 
years of age he was brought to the United 
States by his parents and located at Xenia, 
Ohio, and in the common schools of that city 
he obtained his early education. As a boy, 
however, he began his business career and, as 
a clerk in a railroad hotel and restaurant, the 
fundamental teachings of his early life were 
procured. So ably did he meet the require¬ 
ment of his undertakings that, in 1874, he was 
sent, by his employers, to Garrett, Indiana, and 
in 1877 to Indianapolis, here to take charge of 
the Union Depot eating room, which after a 
few years he bought out and conducted for 
himself. 

If nothing were ever to be written of the 
accomplishments of Mr. Taggart in a political 
way or in any other way, from the period of 
his life immediately following his boyhood to 
the present time, until he were induced to talk 
of them or discuss them, little, if anything, 
would ever appear in print. A large part of 
his schooling in a successful political and busi¬ 
ness career was to keep his own counsel and 
so it is that whatever is to be written of him 
at this time must be obtained from authors of 
previous publications and from whom the pub¬ 
lishers of this volume have obtained much of 
the following relating to the events of interest 
in the life of the man whose name initiates this 
review. 

In 1886 Mr. Taggart, with little effort on 
his part, was nominated for County Auditor of 
Marion County and so zealously and satisfac¬ 
torily did he serve in this office that, notwith¬ 
standing the old custom to allow the holder of 
a four-year office but one term, he was again, 
in 1890, elected to that office without oppo¬ 
sition. In the meantime, in 1888, he had been 
Democratic Chairman and in 1892 was made 
State Chairman, to which position he was re¬ 


elected in 1894. In 1895 Mr. Taggart was 
elected Mayor of the City of Indianapolis, re¬ 
elected in 1897 and again re-elected in 1899. 
For twelve years he was District Chairman of 
the Seventh Congressional District. 

During all of this time Mr. Taggart con¬ 
tinued in private business, although he sold 
and left the depot eating room to conduct the 
Grand Hotel, which was the beginning of the 
Taggart Hotel successes. Upon the conclusion 
of his term of office as Mayor of Indianapolis, 
Mr. Taggart determined to retire from hold¬ 
ing public office and devote himself again to 
personal affairs, taking over the French Lick 
Springs Hotel properties at French Lick, In¬ 
diana, of which he has continuously been the 
president. In 1904, however, he was an out¬ 
standing figure at the National Democratic 
Convention at St. Louis and again in 1908 was 
among the recognized leaders of the National 
Convention at Denver. At the. Baltimore con¬ 
vention in 1912 his political generalship was 
again recognized and of him it has since been 
said that much of the political genius leading 
to the nomination of Woodrow Wilson and 
Thomas R. Marshall to the presidency and 
vice-presidency respectively was the handi¬ 
work of Mr. Taggart. 

In 1916, upon the death of Lhiited States 
Senator Benjamin F. Shively, Governor Sam¬ 
uel M. Ralston named Thomas Taggart as suc¬ 
cessor. In a few months Senator Taggart at¬ 
tracted unusually favorable national attention, 
largely by taking hold of the affairs of the 
government in much the same manner em¬ 
ployed in conducting his own business. 

In addition to these associations and affil¬ 
iations, Mr. Taggart is at this time chairman 
of the Board of Directors of the Fletcher 
American National Bank. 

On June 16, 1877, Mr. Taggart was married 
to Miss Eva D. Bryant and to this union has 
been born one son, Thomas Taggart, Jr., who 
is now associated with his father in the man¬ 
agement of the French Lick Springs Hotel. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JOHN H. TALGE 


Photograph by Dexlieimer 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN H. TALGE 

JOHN H. TALGE, president and general manager of the Talge 
*■' Mahogany Company, Lewis and East Thirteenth Streets, was 
born at Louisville, Kentucky, 1867, son of John B. and Amelia 
(Stienkamp) Talge. The family moved to Indianapolis during 
the boom preceding 1873, and it was in the public schools of this 
city that he was educated. 

The father of the subject of this sketch was a chair manufac¬ 
turer by trade, and in this connection Mr. Talge became interested 
in the upholstery end of that industry and in which he became 
highly succesful. In 1889 he went to St. Joseph, Missouri, where 
he established an upholstery business, at the head of which he re¬ 
mained until 1904, when he returned to Indianapolis. While in 
St. Joseph, however, Mr. Talge had made several trips to Indi¬ 
anapolis in regard to the founding of the Talge Mahogany Com¬ 
pany and in 1901 completed his work along that line. 

In the Talge Mahogany Company, at its big plant, Mr. Talge 
established a business which now has grown to be one of the out¬ 
standing concerns in the city. Timbers and logs, from which 
veneers are made, are shipped to Indianapolis from tropical coun¬ 
tries in such volume that the company has come to be among the 
leaders in the industry. Rosewoods, satin woods, and other im¬ 
ported woods, as well as mahoganies, are used in the Talge plant 
for the manufacture of wood products which are nationally used. 

Mr. Talge married Miss Miriam Johnson at Indianapolis in 
December, 1889. They have three children: Mrs. Helen Talge 
Brown, Mrs. Irene Talge Spiegel, and Gordon J. Talge. The home 
is at 1941 North Delaware Street. 

He is a member of the Indiana Democratic Club. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



ARTHUR H. TAYLOR 


Photograph by Dexlieimer 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ARTHUR H. TAYLOR 

ARTHUR H. TAYLOR, president of the Mortgage Investment 

Company and treasurer of the Mead Construction Company, 
was born at Hope, Indiana, January 4,1874, son of William F. and 
Louisa C. (Ivettlehake) Taylor. 

Practically the entire business life of Mr. Taylor has been 
devoted to financial institutions, starting when only thirteen years 
of age in 1887 as a messenger boy for the Meridian National Bank 
down to the present time. From the date previously mentioned 
he continued in the employ of the Meridian National Bank until 
it was merged with the Merchants National Bank and then with 
that institution he remained for one year until 1895. In 1895 he 
joined the bookkeeping department of Fletcher’s Bank, at that 
time a private institution, in which department he remained until 
he became manager of the safety deposit department, where he 
remained until 1909, when he resigned to become assistant cashier 
of the Continental National Bank, of which he had been one of 
the organizers and which opened for business in September of the 
year just mentioned. 

Of the Continental National Bank, Mr. Taylor later became 
cashier and still later vice-president, a position held by him at the 
lime of his resignation in May, 1920, when he left Indianapolis 
for a short period to engage in business in Texas. In March, 1922, 
Mr. Taylor reorganized the Mortgage Investment Company and 
at that time became its president. In addition to this he has con¬ 
tinuously been treasurer of the Mead Construction Company since 
its organization. 

Mr. Taylor is a member of the Columbia Club, Marion Club. 
Chamber of Commerce, and of the Indianapolis Rotary Club, of 
which he is a charter member. 

The marriage of Mr. Taylor to Miss Dorothy Johnson oc¬ 
curred in Indianapolis, June 17, 1S96. There is one son, Russell 
Fletcher Taylor. The family home is at 3608 Balsam Avenue. 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



CARL A. TAYLOR 


Photograph by Bretsman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 


CARL A. TAYLOR 


C ARL A. TAYLOR, son of Alonzo W. and 
Nellie A. Taylor, was born October 11, 
1871, at Covington, Kentucky. His early ed¬ 
ucation was obtained in the public schools of 
that city, after which, in 1892, he came to In¬ 
dianapolis, where he became associated in busi¬ 
ness with his father and uncle, then proprietors 
of Taylor & Taylor. Five years later, when the 
company changed the name to The Taylor Car¬ 
pet Company, Carl A. Taylor became one of 
the principals. 

When, in 1907, the business began to grow 
to unusually large proportions, it was found 
necessary to obtain larger quarters, and the 
building at 26 West Washington Street, the 
present location, was enlarged to a seven-story 
structure. In addition to this, in 1910, five 
floors of the Indianapolis News Building were 
taken over, and furniture and other merchan¬ 
dise were added to the wares of the company, 
which had previously dealt in carpets and 
draperies only. This gave rise to the need of 
many departments, and in this connection it is 
interesting to learn something of the operating 
and interlocking of these department heads, 
who compose what has been termed an execu¬ 
tive board. 

Once a month this board is called into a 
formal meeting, and at each of these meetings 
each member presents a report upon his par¬ 
ticular part of the work. Mr. Taylor is very 
much interested in developing a plan to bring 
persons of better education into commercial 
life. lie has in the store a system of appren¬ 
ticeship under the guidance of the various de¬ 
partment heads, over whom Mr. Taylor himself 
presides. 

Through frequent store meetings, a Christ¬ 
mas party and summer picnic, life insurance 
for every employee, and other similar innova¬ 
tions, there has developed a close-knit organiza¬ 
tion with a mutuality of interest which Mr. 
Taylor says makes just one big family. 

The subject of this sketch is a student of his 


business, a producer of business philosophy, a 
creator of commercial innovations, an active 
force for progressiveness, and responsible for 
that motto, “You be the Judge,” by which his 
firm has become so widely and favorably 
known during recent years. 

Back of this motto stands The Taylor Car¬ 
pet Company in its fullest significance, and 
back of that organization stands Mr. Taylor, a 
man of his word. Adherence to this motto un¬ 
der seemingly adverse conditions is part of a 
program to build a foundation of public confi¬ 
dence so solid that nothing can upset it. This 
extraordinary guiding principle was adopted 
by Mr. Taylor after many years of careful con¬ 
sideration, and it is based upon the assumption 
that the majority of the purchasing public is 
honest. 

A commercial hobby with Mr. Taylor is a 
constructive effort to develop homes in Indi¬ 
anapolis. The Taylor Carpet Company has 
followed a general trend in this direction, and 
with care and consideration, and assistance 
whenever possible, is placing before the home 
builder the art of making the home more than 
a mere place of abode. Business, thinks Mr. 
Taylor, is no longer a battle of wits but a ques¬ 
tion of service in its highest form. 

On June 21, 1893, Mr. Taylor married Miss 
Effie M. Seeman at Covington, Kentucky. 
There are four children: Myron I)., Harold W., 
Eleanor J., and Kathryn Louise. The sons 
are associated with their father in business, be¬ 
ing department heads of The Taylor Carpet 
Company. The family resides at 1500 North 
Delaware Street. 

Mr. Taylor is a member of the Indianapolis 
Country Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Highland Golf and Country Club, Hoosier 
Motor Club, Indianapolis Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, is a director of the Rotary Club, direc¬ 
tor in the Merchants’ Association, director in 
Associated Employers, and director in Stores 
Mutual Protective Association. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



HAROLD TAYLOR 


Photograph by Moorcfield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HAROLD TAYLOR 

T-JAROLD TAYLOR, lawyer, was born in the City of Indian- 
apolis, January 22, 1862, and is the son of Napoleon B. and 
Catherine (Brown) Taylor. His father before him was a lawyer, 
long in the practice in Indianapolis, having been admitted to the 
State and Federal Bar in Indianapolis in April, 1844, and was 
Judge of the Marion Superior Court for three terms, during the 
last term of which he passed away August 2, 1893. An older 
brother, Edwin Taylor, was long a practicing lawyer at Indian¬ 
apolis and Evansville, where he passed away November 19, 1921. 

The early education of the subject of this sketch was obtained 
in the private schools of Indianapolis, including college prepara¬ 
tory work in the Boys’ Classical School, after which he attended 
Wabash College and was of the class of 1882, from which he grad¬ 
uated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and later the lionorarv 
degree of Master of Arts. After completion of the college course, 
Mr. Taylor was, for eight years, an official court reporter of the 
State Courts of Indianapolis, until 1890 when he entered the law 
school at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1891 with the 
degree of Bachelor of Laws. The same year Mr. Taylor was ad¬ 
mitted to the practice of law before the State and Federal Courts 
in Michigan and Indiana, since which time he has continuously 
devoted himself to his profession including practice before the 
Supreme Court of the United States. 

Mr. Taylor is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State 
and American Bar Associations, University Club, Indianapolis 
Country Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, and College Fraternity 
Phi Gamma Delta, Legal Fraternity Phi Delta Phi. He is a mem¬ 
ber of the Episcopal Church. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



\VM. N. THOMPSON 


Photograph hy Dexlieimer 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


WILLIAM N. THOMPSON 


YY/TLLIAM X. THOMPSON, president and general manager 
vv of tlie Stntz Motor Car Company of America, Inc., was born 
March 29, 1881, at Indianapolis, Indiana. His father, Thomas L. 
Thompson, Scotch-Irish ancestry, was a furniture manufacturer 
in Indianapolis; mother, Carrie E. (Zimmerman) Thompson, of 
German descent. 


M illiam N. Thompson was educated at the grammar and high 
schools of Indianapolis, and at the age of 17 began his business 
career with the wholesale lumber firm of G. F. Whitmer Lumber 
Company of Indianapolis, Indiana, remaining with them for four 
years, during which period he acquired a liberal knowledge of the 
lumber industry. He then accepted a position in the American 
National Bank as clerk, remaining there for three years, occupy¬ 
ing the position of assistant to the auditor when he resigned, after 
a period of four years in finance. He then associated himself with 
his father in the chair manufacturing business, the Central Chair 
Company of Indianapolis, as secretary-treasurer, remaining in 
that capacity for seven years, at which time the company was con¬ 
solidated with the Indianapolis Chair and Furniture Company, 
continuing under that name, and Mr. Thompson continued as sec¬ 
retary and treasurer for seven more years, when he disposed of his 
interests to enter the automobile industry. 

In 1911 he joined forces with the Stntz Motor Car Company, 
an Indiana corporation, which was afterwards incorporated under 
the laws of New York as the Stutz Motor Car Company of Ameri¬ 
ca, Inc., as purchasing agent, remaining in that position for one 
year, when he was made sales manager of the company, and was 
advanced to the position of secretary and treasurer in 1916, serving 
in that capacity until 1919, when he was elected president and 
general manager. 

He is also interested in the retail sporting goods house of Gus 
Habich Company, of Indianapolis, being its secretary and treas¬ 
urer. 

His club affiliations include the Columbia Club, Highland 
Golf and Country Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Chamber of 
Commerce, all of Indianapolis. He is a member of the Masonic 
Fraternity, Mystic Shrine, and Benevolent Order of Elks. 

Mr. Thompson was married November 21, 1906, to Miss Jesse 
H. Gilbert of Cincinnati, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Wil- 
liamine Lytle. The family resides at 4313 North Meridian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



HENRY C. THORNTON 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HENRY CLARKE THORNTON 

JTENRA CLARKE THORNTON, was born at Bedford, In¬ 
diana, November 8, 1851. He is one of a family of eight 
children born to George Abram and Mary Amanda (Braxtan) 
Thornton. After attending the common schools of the city of 
liis birth he entered Hanover College in 1866 and from that insti¬ 
tution graduated in 1871, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 

Immediately upon the completion of his collegiate course, Mr. 
Thornton engaged in the drug business at Bedford and in this 
continued until 1875, when he went into the general merchandising 
business in the same city. He married Nannie Hynes Speer, of 
Hanover, Indiana, on June 12, 1873, and lived in Bedford and 
Madison until her death. 

Since 1883 Mr. Thornton has resided in Indianapolis and has 
here been in the business of printing and blank book manufactur¬ 
ing, specializing on county, office and bank stationery and high 
grade commercial work. 

On April 28, 1890, he married Harriett Emma Hall. There 
is one son, Henry Clarke Thornton, Jr., who is vice-president of 
the Thornton-Levev Company. 

Mr. Thornton has never held nor desired political honors, 
although in civic, social and business circles he has been promin¬ 
ent. He is president of the Thornton-Levy Company, one of the 
vice-presidents of the Bankers Trust Company and a director of 
the Continental National Bank. He has served as president of 
the Board of Trustees of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Chureh for 
twenty-five years and is also at this time one of the Board of 
Elders in this congregation. 

In fraternal activities Mr. Thornton served as Master of Mys¬ 
tic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. M. in 1916 and in 1922 was elected 
Junior Warden of Indianapolis Chapter of Rose Croix in Scottish 
Rite Masonry. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



M. BERT THURMAN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


M. BERT THURMAN 

JWJ BERT THURMAN, Collector of Internal Revenue for Indi- 
ana, was born at Orleans, Indiana, April 2, 1872, son of 
William J. Tlmrman and Nancy (Aslibv) Thurman. When he 
was a boy his parents moved to New Albany, Indiana, and there 
he attended the public and high schools of that city. 

After completing his schooling he engaged in the printing 
business and on January 1, 1901. became editor and publisher of 
the New Albany Tribune. He left the publishing business in 1912, 
however, to become postmaster of New Albany, receiving his ap¬ 
pointment from President Taft. Upon the expiration of his term 
as postmaster he became associated with otlieis in organizing the 
American Bank and Trust Company of New Albany. He was 
manager of the bond department of the bank until May 1, 1920, 
when he was appointed by President Harding to the important 
government post of Collector of Internal Revenue for the Dis¬ 
trict of Indiana. 

His public work has extended for more than a quarter of a 
century, beginning when he was a member of the City Council of 
New Albany. He was returned to the Council for a second term. 
In political organization activities he was chairman of the Re¬ 
publican party in Floyd County and chairman of the Third Con¬ 
gressional District. He is also a director in the American Bank 
and Trust Company, which he assisted in organizing, and a direc¬ 
tor of the Old Capital State Bank and Trust Company of Corvdon, 
Indiana. 

Mr. Thurman and Miss Mable A. Whalen, of New Albany, 
were married at New Albany on December 11, 1891, and have one 
daughter, Mrs. George L. Foote, nee Zella N. Thurman, of Indi¬ 
anapolis, and a grand-daugliter, Martha Foote. The home is at 
3716 North Pennsylvania Street. 

For a number of years he has been a member of the Columbia 
Club, the Knights Templar, and Masonic organizations. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



CLYDE E. TITUS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CLYDE E. TITUS 


L\ DE E. TITUS, member of the firm of Hisey & Titus, fun¬ 
eral directors, was born at Williamsport, Indiana, September 
3, 3881, son of J. AA T . and Flora (Clifton) Titus. Upon the com¬ 
pletion of the grade and high school courses prescribed by the 
public schools of the city of his birth, Mr. Titus followed a course 
of embalming at the Chicago College of Embalming and then re¬ 
turned to Williamsport, there to become associated with his father 
in the furniture and undertaking business. 

In 3901 Air. Titus came to Indianapolis to become associated 
with the firm of Whitsett & Culver as embalmer and assistant. 
This continued for a period of six years, or until 3907, when he 
became a partner in the firm. A few years later Air. E. R. Hisey 
became a partner in the firm and as a result of this association Air. 
Titus and Air. Hisey in 3932 bought all other interests in the firm 
and formed what has since been known as Hisey & Titus. 


The firm of Hisey & Titus, funeral directors, was among the 
first of the State to establish what has become since known as 
“The Funeral Home”, taking a ninety-nine year lease on the old 
AVoclier property located on the northeast corner of Delaware and 
St. Joseph Streets. 

Air. Titus has on numerous occasions been prominently iden¬ 
tified with the activities of those engaged in his particular line of 
endeavor. He was appointed a member of the Indiana State 
Board of Embalmers by the late Governor J. Frank Hanlv in 
3908 and four years later was reappointed to this position bv Gov¬ 
ernor Thomas R. Marshall. During four years of the eight years 
just mentioned Air. Titus was secretary of the board. 

In 3915, while attending the meeting of the North American 
Conference of Embalmers, and Examining Boards at San Fran¬ 
cisco, California, he was elected president of the National Confer¬ 
ence Board and presided over the meetings of that body at Co¬ 
lumbus, Ohio, during the session of the following year. Mr. Titus 
also served during 3923, as president of the Indiana Funeral Di¬ 
rectors’ Association, which elects him a member of the National 
Funeral Directors’ Association. 

Mr. Titus is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Ro- 
tarv Club, Kiwanis Club, Marion Club, Chamber of Commerce 
and in the Afasonic fraternity is a member of the Pentalpha Lodge. 
No. 561, F. & A. AL, of which he is a Past Master, the Scottish Rite, 
Alurat Temple of the Alystic Shrine and of Raper Commanderv 
No. 3, of which he is now an officer. 

The marriage of Ah*. Titus to Aliss Afaude Essex, daughter of 
All*, and Mrs. Bert Essex, of this city, took place at Indianapolis, 
October 18, 3911. There are two children, Norman Essex and 
Helen Louise. The family residence is 736 Middle Drive AVood- 

ruff Place. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



NEWTON TODD 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


NEWTON TODD 

TE'W TON TODD, one of the original founders and the first secretary of the 
1 ^ Indianapolis Stock Exchange and head of the stock and bond house bear¬ 
ing his name, was born at Pendleton, Madison County, Indiana, son of John 
M. and Eva (Chapman) Todd, March 22, 1860. Ilis father, now eighty-nine 
years of age, is the oldest living real estate man in Indianapolis, coming to 
this city more than a half century ago. 

When less than one year of age Mr. Todd of this sketch, moved with his 
parents to Indianapolis and it Avas in the public and high schools of this 
city that he receHed his early education. Upon the completion of this course 
at Shortridge High School, he entered the insurance and real estate business 
as an assistant state agent for the old German-Ameriean Fire Insurance Com¬ 
pany. Later he Avas elected secretary of the old Franklin Fire Insurance 
Company and in this capacity serA r ed until 1887, when he founded an indepeud 
ent insurance and investment business of his oavu. The insurance Avork has 
since been gradually dropped until iioav the business is deA’oted exclusiA'ely 
to the handling of stocks and bonds and other financial securities. 

In November, 1902, Mr. Todd, together with several other financial men 
of the ctiy, formed the Indianapolis Stock Exchange. At that time he Avas 
elected secretary of the exchange, which position he filled until January, 
1904, when he became president of the exchange to serve for that year. In this 
connection it is of interest to here note that Mr. Todd Avas again, in 1918, 
elected president of the Indianapolis Stock Exchange and in this capacity 
well served during the troublous financial conditions preA’ailing immediately 
folloAving the conclusion of the World War. 

The many activities of Mr. Todd among bankers and brokers during the 
years that he has been in business have led to many important developments 
in Indianapolis financial circles. Several matters relating to the financing of 
public improvements have been scrutinized by Mr. Todd and his business as¬ 
sociates, Avhile the financing of a large number of public utilities have been 
arranged by the subject of this sketch. 

Mr. Todd is a member of the Indiana Bankers’ Association, the Columbia 
Club, the Woodstock Club and the Iloosier Athletic Club. He is also president 
of the Todd Realty Company and a director of the Marion Title Guaranty 
Company. 

The marriage of Mr. Todd to Miss Bessie M. Taylor occurred in Indianap¬ 
olis in 1894. Airs. Todd is a daughter of the late William A. Taylor avIio Avas 
one of the founders of Christ Episcopal Church on Monument Circle, one of 
the oldest churches in Indianapolis. There are three children, NeAvton Taylor 
Todd, Herbert W. Todd, both of whom are associated with their father in 
business, and Miss Lucie M. Todd. The family home is at 1416 North Pennsvl- 
A'ania Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



ROBERT I. TODD 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


ROBERT 

OBERT I. TODD was born at Lakewood, 
New Jersey, November 29, 1869. After 
completing bis school education lie entered 
Johns Ilophins University and received the de¬ 
gree of Electrical Engineer in 1893. Mr. Todd 
acquired the habit of constant application to 
work which lias been noted throughout his ca¬ 
reer. and while in college his summer vacations 
were spent in working through the shops of 
the Baxter Motor Company, Baltimore, Mary¬ 
land, and in the employ of the Traction Com¬ 
pany at Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the 
first electric lines in the country, where he ac¬ 
quired practical experience in the shops and 
other departments. 

After graduating lie became connected, as 
superintendent and electrical engineer, with 
the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home Railway 
Company, Washington, D. C., which was later 
consolidated into the City and Suburban Rail¬ 
way, and still later into the Washington Rail¬ 
way and Electric Company. In 1899 he left 
this company and became chief engineer of the 
American Air Power Company, New York City, 
which company had undertaken the develop¬ 
ment of compressed air motors for the Metro¬ 
politan Street Railway, New York City. 

Mr. Todd later became more directly con¬ 
nected with the Metropolitan Company, being 
associated with Mr. Starrett, who was then 
chief engineer. In 1900 he went to Pittsburgh 
as master mechanic in charge of the shops and 
power houses of the Consolidated Street Rail¬ 
way, which is now included in the system of 
the Pittsburgh Railways Company. 

In the early part of 1901 Mr. Todd was 
chosen vice-president and general manager of 
the Cincinnati Traction Company, leaving this 
position in 1902 to assume general supervision 
of the engineering work of the electric rail¬ 
way properties of the United Gas Improve¬ 
ment Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
particularly in connection with the Connecti¬ 
cut and Rhode Island properties, which were 
purchased by the United Gas Improvement 


I. TODD 

Company and later taken over by the New 
York, New Haven A- Hartford Railroad 
Company. 

In March, 1903, Mr. Todd was appointed 
general manager of the Rhode Island Com¬ 
pany, which controlled the city lines in Provi¬ 
dence, Pawtucket and adjoining city, as well 
as the suburban lines of the Rhode Island Su¬ 
burban Railway Company, and Interstate Rail¬ 
way Company, running to Attleboro, North 
Attleboro, Plainfield, etc., Massachusetts. Dur¬ 
ing his connection with the Rhode Island Com¬ 
pany, Mr. Todd supervised construction and 
completion of the Manchester Street power 
station. 

On January 1, 1906, he came to Indianap¬ 
olis to become vice-president and general man¬ 
ager of the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal 
Company (now the Indianapolis Street Rail¬ 
way), and when the Terre Haute, Indianapolis 
& Eastern Traction Company was organized in 
1907, and consolidated various interurban 
properties, Mr. Todd also became vice-presi¬ 
dent and general manager of that company. 
Upon the death of Hugh J. McGowan, in 1911, 
Mr. Todd succeeded him as president of the 
two properties. The West Tenth Street gen¬ 
erating station of the T. II., I. & E. Traction 
Company, one of the most modern in the Cen¬ 
tral West, was designed and constructed under 
his personal direction. 

Mr. Todd was president of the American 
Electric Railway Transportation and Traffic 
Association in 1912, president of the Central 
Electric Railway Association in 1920, and 
president of the American Electric Railway 
Association in 1922, and is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers 
and an associate member of the American In¬ 
stitute of Electrical Engineers. 

On April 17, 1901, Mr. Todd married Miss 
Charlotte L. Yinal at New York. There is one 
child, Robert W. Todd. The family resides at 
1329 North New Jersey Street. 



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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



DR. WM. S. TOMLIN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. WILLIAM S. TOMLIN 

D R. WM. S. TOMLIN, specializing in diseases and surgery of the ear, nose 
and throat, was born at Mt. Zion, Kentucky, January 10, 1869 son of Dr. 
Benjamin F. and Elizabeth Jane Tomlin. Ilis early education was obtained in 
the public schools of Mt. Zion, Kentucky, and Vincennes. Indiana, having moved 
with his parents to the last mentioned city when a boy. Upon the completion 
of his early schooling. Dr. Tomlin entered the Indiana State Normal School at 
Terre Haute, Indiana, and at that institution remained from 1886 to 1889. He 
then attended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio (1890-1891) and 
the University of Louisville at Louisville, Kentucky (1891-1892), from which 
latter institution he graduated, in March 1892, with the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine. 

Immediately following his graduation from medical college, Dr. Tomlin 
entered a competitive examination for an interneship at the City Hospital of 
Louisville, and being successful therein, served as interne at that hospital from 
1892-1893. He then became assistant physician at the Eastern Indiana State 
Hospital for the Insane at East Haven, Indiana, where he remained for a 
period of two years until 1895. In that year he came to Indianapolis and here 
entered the general practice of medicine. 

Since 1909 Dr. Tomlin has limited his practice to the treatment of the dis¬ 
eases of the ear. nose and throat, in which he has attained to a position of de¬ 
cided esteem and favorable reputation throughout the Commonwealth. In the 
years 1906, 1908, 1909 and 1910, Dr. Tomlin followed post-graduate work in 
post graduate schools of New York and Chicago, while in 1911, he pursued post 
graduate courses at the leading hospitals and clinics of London, Vienna and 
Berlin. 

Dr. Tomlin is a member of the Indianapolis and Indiana State Medical 
Associations, a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto¬ 
laryngology, a Fellow of the American Medical Association, a Fellow of the 
Indiana State Academy of Opthalmology and Oto-laryngology, of which he 
was president in 1921; a Fellow of the Indianapolis Academy of Opthalmology 
and Oto-laryngology, of which he was president in 1922-23; a Fellow of the 
American College of Surgeons, and is upon the staffs of the St. Vincent’s and 
Indianapolis City hospitals. He is also a member of the Columbia Club, the 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Highland Golf and Country Club, and in the 
Masonic fraternity is affiliated with Ancient Landmarks Lodge No. 319, F. & A. 
M., the Scottish Rite and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine, of which he has 
been a member since 1898. 

The marriage of Dr. Tomlin to Miss Martha J. Parsons, for many years a 
well known singer among church and social functions of the city, took place at 
Indianapolis, November 8, 1899. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OP AFFAIRS 



EDWARD R. TREAT 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDWARD R. TREAT 

P DM ARD RANDOLPH TREAT, direct descendant in a family 
that lias been identified with the annals of American history 
since the early Colonial days and one that has stood exponent of 
useful and enlightened citizenship as one generation has followed 
another, was born in Indianapolis, September 16, 1869, the only 
son of Atwater J. and Isabella L. (Laidley) Treat. The father 
who was born at Orange, Connecticut, November 11, 1838 and died 
in this city April 22, 1902, was a prominent and successful mer¬ 
chant tailor of Indianapolis. 

The early education of Edward R. Treat, of this review, was 
obtained in the city and private schools of Indianapolis, after 
which he attended Westminster School at Dobbs Ferry, New York, 
preparatory to entering Harvard University in the class of 1895. 

In 1893, however, Mr. Treat returned to Indianapolis, in 
view of the retirement of Mr. Edward C. Eagen from the partner¬ 
ship of Eagen & Treat, and here became associated in business 
with his father under the firm name of A. J Treat & Son, which 
has since continued under the same name to the present writing, 
Edward R. Treat assuming entire charge of the business since the 
death of his father upon the date previously mentioned. The en¬ 
terprise is the oldest of its kind in the city, having originally been 
established here in 1867 and has for many years held distinctive 
precedence as one of the leading merchant tailoring establish¬ 
ments not only of Indiana but also of the Middle West. 

In politics Mr. Treat is a supporter of the principles and 
policies of the Republican party. He is a member of the Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce, Columbia Club, a founder member of the Indi¬ 
anapolis Athletic Club, Marion Club, Kiwanis Club, and in the 
Masonic fraternity is a member of Ancient Landmarks, No. 319, 
F. & A. M. and Keystone Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. 

The marriage of Mr. Treat to Miss Eva Pauline Henderson 
occurred at Kokomo, Indiana, January 11, 1900. There is one 
daughter, Virginia Pauline. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



JAMES H. TRIMBLE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JAMES H. TRIMBLE 


TAMES H. TRIMBLE, President of the Western Oil Refining 
J Company, was born at Keokuk, Iowa, April 10, 1867, son of 
illiam T. and A irginia (King) Trimble. His education was 
obtained in the public schools of the city of his birth, after which, 
when but thirteen years of age, he entered the employment of the 
Carson & Rand Lumber Company, of Keokuk, and with which he 
remained until after he had reached his majority. 


Tn 1888 Mr. Trimble became interested in lumber yards at 
Warsaw and Hamilton, Illinois. These interests he retained for 
a period of three years, disposing of them in 1891 to become asso¬ 
ciated with the T. B. Scott Lumber Company at Merrill, Wiscon¬ 
sin. Tn 1896 he accepted employment with the Weyerhaeuser- 
Denkmann Company, located at Rock Island, Illinois, although 
about this time lie incorporated and began to operate the May- 
Benedict Company at Peoria, Illinois, buying up the Yellow Pine 
output of a number of southern mills. 


While associated with the Weyerhaeuser-Denkmann Com¬ 
pany he also took over a mill at Columbus, Missouri, operated and 
incorporated under the name of the Marion Lumber Company. In 
1905 he became secretary and general manager of the Southern 
Pine Lumber Company at Rock Island, Illinois, and in 1908 he 
became secretary of the Easterling Lumber Company at Ora, 
Mississippi, both of the last two mentioned organizations being 
under the control of those interested in the Weyerhaeuser-Denk¬ 
mann Company. 

In 1910 Mr. Trimble disposed of all of his lumber interests 
and came to Indianapolis, here to organize the Western Oil Re¬ 
fining Company, of which he has since been continually the presi¬ 
dent. In 1912 he organized the Columbus Oil Company at Co¬ 
lumbus, Ohio, and of that company he is also the president at this 
time. In 1914 he organized the White Star Oil Company, but sold 
his holdings in that corporation in 1920. 

Mr. Trimble is a member of the Columbia Club, Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, the Rotary Club, 
and the Athenaeum. 

The marriage of Air. Trimble to Miss Cora Tabelman took 
place at Keokuk, Iowa, November 25, 1887. There are three chil¬ 
dren William H. and Robert S., who are associated with their 
father in business, and Mrs. Lucius S. French, nee, Blanche. 
Mr and Mrs. Trimble reside at the Winter Apartments. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



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NELSON G. TROWBRIDGE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


NELSON G. TROWBRIDGE 


EL.SON GILL TROWBRIDGE, resident manager of the Sliubert-Murat 
^ ^ heatre, which is controlled by the Lee and J. J. Shubert theatrical inter¬ 
ests of New \ ork, was born at Toledo, Ohio, on March 24, 1881, son of Stephen 
Atwater and Frances G. (Gill) Trowbridge. Upon completion of his educa¬ 
tion in the Toledo public schools he entered the Valentine Theatre of that city 
as a program boy. 


From program boy in 1895 to manager of the Valentine Theatre in 1911 
took him through all phases of theatre management, the stepping-stones in¬ 
cluding two years as lower floor usher, two years as chief usher, one year as 
assistant treasurer, and six years as treasurer of the theatre. During his time 
as treasurer the theatre had three different managers. 

For two years, beginning in 1911, he managed the Valentine Theatre, which 
was controlled by Mr. L. M. Boda of Columbus, Ohio, president of the Valen¬ 
tine circuit of theatres. This theatre was one of the most beautiful theatres 
in the country and played traveling shows exclusively. In 1913 he became 
manager of the Auditorium; Theatre, which was in the Newsboys Auditorium 
Building and in which Shubert attractions play exclusively. Here it was that 
Mr. Trowbridge became associated with the Shubert interests. 


Upon leaving the Auditorium Theatre, August 15, 1915, to come to Indian¬ 
apolis as resident manager of the Shubert Murat Theatre, Mr. Trowbridge 
received a fitting compliment from Mr. Robison Locke, dramatic critic of the 
Toledo Blade, who wrote in his column: “Much of the present season’s success 
has been due to the tact and ability of the able, intelligent and courteous man¬ 
ager, Mr. Nelson Trowbridge, a gentleman whose consideration to patrons, 
managers and performers has won for him the respect and esteem of everyone 
who has come in contact with him, professionally and otherwise. Mr. Trow¬ 
bridge has demonstrated the fact that a theatre manager can be a gentleman, 
worthy of everyone’s sincere regard, and his host of friends will regret that he 
is no longer to serve them. 

Mr. Trowbridge’s long association with theatrical management and its vari¬ 
ous phases has given to him an unusually broad viewpoint of the interests of 
the public and stage profession alike, and in his ninth year as resident man¬ 
ager of the Shubert Murat Theatre, which is playing only Shubert productions, 
he occupies a position of decided favor and respect in the minds and hearts of 
all Indianapolis theatre-goers. 

He is a member of the Indianapolis Rotary Club and the Hoosier Motor 
Club. 

Mr Trowbridge married Miss Ida Katherine Boehrne of Monroe, Michigan, 
on June 30, 1913, and they have three children—Nelson Robert, Charles Stephen 
and Joan Camilla Trowbridge. The family home is at 2309 Broadway. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



HARRY D. TUTEWILER 


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Bretsman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HARRY D. TUTEWILER 

H arry d. tutewiler, mortician, prominent in Republican politics in 
Indianapolis, was born in this city July 19, 1869, son of Henry W. and 
Louisa M. (Dunn) Tutewiler. The father served on the staff of Gen. John T. 
M ilder during the Civil War and was mustered out of service in 1865 as a First 
Lieutenant and regimental quartermaster. He also served as City Treasurer 
for Indianapolis from 1872 to 1876. 

Educated in the Indianapolis public schools Mr. Tutewiler became asso¬ 
ciated with his father in the undertaking business under the firm name of 
Tutewiler & Son in 1885. Since the death of his father in 1918, the business 
has been conducted under Mr. Tutewiler’s own name. 

Mr. Tutewiler, the subject of this sketch, has always been engaged in the 
undertaking business and in 1900 was appointed by the late Governor W. T. 
Durbin, a member of the first “State Board of Embalmers,” serving on the 
board for two years, when he was elected coroner of Marion County. He was 
the first man, other than a physician, to be elected coroner of this county and 
had the further distinction of being re-elected, the first coroner to be re-elected 
within a period of twenty years. 

Mr. Tutewiler has always manifested an interest in public welfare, espe¬ 
cially with regard to the children. In 1906 he established the first public 
bath-house in Indianapolis, conducting it at his own expense until the property 
was turned over by him to the city. In 1907, Mr. Tutewiler was appointed 
Chairman of the Recreation Committee of the Children’s Aid Association, and it 
was this committee which later took charge of the public bath-house for the city. 
He was largely instrumental in bringing about legislative enactment of the 
Indianapolis Playground Commission and in May, 1909, he was appointed the 
civic representative on that commission. 

During the influenza epidemic in 1918, Mr. Tutewiler was appointed by 
the United States Government to take charge of the mortician services at the 
Fort Benjamin Harrison cantonment and earned the conspicuous record of 
having conducted affairs without a single mistake in the transportation of 
bodies to the proper destination, a record said to have been unequaled at any 
other similar place in the United States. 

In addition to the above mentioned business, Mr. Tutewiler is also president 
of the St. Clair Realty Company. 

In 1920 he was elected commissioner of Marion County, his term ending 
December 31, 1923. Ilis wife, Julia Belle Tutewiler, served for eight years as 
a member of the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners and was the first 
woman to be elected president of the board. Miss Mary Margaret Tutewiler, 
a daughter, is making an enviable record as a playwright and writer of prose 
and poetry. Several of her playlets have been produced in Indianapolis. 

Mr. Tutewiler is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the 
Indianapolis Board of Trade, and was president of the Marion Club in 1908. 
He is also a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club. In the Masonic fra¬ 
ternity he is a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the Knights Templar and a 
member of the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of 

the Elks Lodge. 

He married Miss Julia Belle Goodhart at Indianapolis on October 21, 
1896 They have three children, Miss Julia Louise Tutewiler, Miss Mary Mar- 
o-aret Tutewiler and Miss Belle Caroline, now deceased. The family home is 
at 1515 Park Avenue, and his place of business at 1549 North Meridian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



GEN. ROBERT H. TYNDALL 


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GENERAL ROBERT H. TYNDALL 

G ENERAL ROBERT IT. TYNDALL, vice president of the Fletcher Ameri¬ 
can National Bank and national treasurer of the American Legion and for 
many years prominently identified with state and national military affairs, was 
horn at Indianapolis, May 2, 1877, son of William E. and Alice (Boyd) Tyndall. 
ITis early education was obtained in the public schools of the city of his birth, 
after which he engaged in various business enterprises until April 26, 1898, 
when he entered the Indiana Volunteer Battery, as a private, to serve in the 
war with Spain. I pon the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, during 
which time he was for a period attached to the Expeditionary Forces in Porto 
Pico, General Tyndall served in every rank from private to captain in Battery 
A Indiana National Guard, and from June 19, 1916 to January 19, 1917 com¬ 
manded Indiana Battalion Field Artillery at Llano Grand, Texas. 

From August 5, 1917 to May 24, 1919, General Tyndall commanded the 
First Regiment Field Artillery of Indiana which became the 150th Field Artil¬ 
lery, 42nd “Rainbow" Division, and during the World War commanded this 
regiment in five sector operations on the French front in addition to the Cham¬ 
pagne Defensive from July 15-18, 1918, (for this engagament he was cited by 
the French and awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm) the Aisne-Marne 
Offensive July 24 to August 11, the St. Mihiel offensive September 1, to Octo¬ 
ber 4, 1918 and the Argonne Forest offensive October 7, to November 11, 1918. 
From December 16, 1918 to April 7, 1919 he was with the Army of Occupa¬ 
tion Headquarters at Neuenahr, Germany. 

During the World War, General Tyndall, in different engagements also 
commanded the 5th, 13th and 18th Field Artillery in addition to the 150th Field 
Artillery, and served in the 4th, 5th and 6th French Army and 1st and 3rd 
American Army. General Tyndall was commissioned a Brigadier-General in 
Field Artillery, Officers Reserve Corp in 1921 and on October 11, 1921 was 
commissioned Major-General, commanding the 38th National Guard Division, 
comprising the states of Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia. 

In connection with the outstanding military record of General Tyndall it is 
of interest to here mention that to him has been awarded the Distinguished 
Service Medal for service in the World War. The citation which accompanies 
the medal is as follows: “For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished ser¬ 
vices as commander, 150th Field Artillery, in the Baccaret, Champagne, Aisne- 
Marne, St. Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne operations, part of which time, he com¬ 
manded one or more additional elements of the artillery with which he was oper¬ 
ating. Ilis high technical attainments, his untiring energy and devotion to 
duty were important factors in the successful operations of the American Ex¬ 
peditionary forces.” In addition to this, General Henri Gouraud, upon a recent 
visit to the United States conferred upon General Tyndall the Legion of Honor, 
the highest military distinction awarded by France. 

Upon the conclusion of the World War and the creation of the American 
Legion, lie was elected National Treasurer of that organization, in which capac¬ 
ity he still serves. He is a past president of the Indiana Chapter of the Sons of 
American Revolution, a member of the University Club, Columbia Club, Coun¬ 
try Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Rolling Ridge Polo Club and honorary 
member of the Woodstock Club, Rotary Club and the Kiwanis Club. In the 
Masonic fraternity in which he lias attained to the 33rd degree, he is a member 
of Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite and the Murat Temple 
of the Mystic Shrine, being a life member of the last mentioned. 

The marriage of General Tyndall to Miss Hazel Dean Spellman occurred 
at Indianapolis June 24, 1908. There are three children, Ann, Samuel and Ruth. 
The family residence is at 2016 North Meridian Street, 


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C. M. VALENTINE 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CLYDE M. VALENTINE 

pLYDE M. VALENTINE, president of C. M. Valentine & 
^ Company, 15 North Pennsylvania Street, was born July 28, 
1866, in Laporte County, Indiana, son of John A. and Nancy M. 
(Hinman) Valentine. When a boy his parents moved to Bucha¬ 
nan, Michigan, and it was in the public schools of that city that 
he received his education. 

After completing the usual high school course, Mr. Valentine 
became associated with a dry goods firm in Buchanan, with which 
he remained for four years. He then went to South Bend, Indi¬ 
ana, where he joined the staff of the Ellsworth Store, one of the 
largest dry goods stores in the northern part of the state, and re¬ 
mained with that store thirty-one years, being a partner in the 
business before disposing of his holdings in 1917 to retire from 
business. 

While with the Ellsworth Store, Mr. Valentine served in many 
departments and capacities, beginning at the bottom of the busi¬ 
ness and steadily advancing. In 1900 he became a partner with 
John C. Ellsworth in the business and continued as such until 
1917. In that year he left South Bend and, coming to Indianap¬ 
olis, became associated with the J. Guy Haugh Company store at 
15 North Pennsylvania Street. Since 1919, when Mr. Valentine 
acquired ownership of the J. Guy Haugh Company, the concern 
lias been known as C. M. Valentine & Company. 

C. M. Valentine & Company conducts an exclusive men’s 
store, dealing in the latest and finest imported and domestic fur¬ 
nishings, including clothing, hats and men’s wearing apparel. 
Custom-made shirts, one of the specialties manufactured in Indi¬ 
anapolis by C. M. Valentine & Company, are sold in thirty-five 
states of the Union. 

Mr. Valentine is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of 
Commerce, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Iviwanis Club, 
Hoosier Motor Club, and of the Masonic bodies. 

On July 8, 1918, lie married Miss Jane McCullagh Rudy at 
Indianapolis. The family home is at 3510 Guilford Avenue. 


629 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



RAYMOND P. VAN CAMP 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


RAYMOND P. VANCAMP 


R AYMOND P. VANCAMP, president of the 
VanCamp Hardware & Iron Company— 
one of the largest and most progressive hard¬ 
ware concerns in the United States—was born 
March 9, 1874 in the first frame house to be 
erected in Indianapolis—that erected by his 
great-grandfather, Isaac Wilson. The Van¬ 
Camp family ancestry is Dutch, the family hav¬ 
ing come to this country during the early part 
of the nineteenth century from Holland, locat¬ 
ing first in New York state and then in Indi¬ 
ana. The Patterson family ancestry dates back 
from the early pioneer stock of America. 

Mr. VanCamp’s father, the late Cortland 
VanCamp, was for many years a prominent 
and respected citizen of Indianapolis. He 
founded the VanCamp Hardware & Iron Com¬ 
pany in 1876 and of that establishment was con¬ 
tinuously the president, until his death, August 
7, 1923. He also, together with his father, the 
late Gilbert C. VanCamp, founded the Van 
Camp Packing Company, being Chairman of 
the boards of directors of both the VanCamp 
Packing Company and the VanCamp Products 
Company at the time of his death. 

The early education of Raymond P. Van¬ 
Camp. of this sketch, was obtained in the “High 
School of Indiananolis.” after which he was 
graduated from the Michigan Military Acad¬ 
emy at Orchard Lake, Michigan. He then at¬ 
tended Philips Exeter Academy, at Philips Exe¬ 
ter, New Hamnshire. where he prepared to en¬ 
ter Harvard University. Due, however, to the 
illness of his father he became associated, in¬ 
stead. with the VanCamp Hardware & Iron 
Company, working through the various depart¬ 
ments to familiarize himself with the conduct of 
the organization. After that he became a spec¬ 
ial traveling salesman for the company, then 
Assistant Treasurer, later Vice President and, 
upon the death of his father, the President. 

Prior to assuming the general management of 
the VanCamn Hardware & Iron Company, Mr. 
VanCamp was, in 1907, president and treasurer 
of the Southern Eire Brick & Clay Company of 
Chicago and Indianapolis with offices in both 
cities and plant at Montezuma, Indiana, From 
1914 to 1920 he was engaged in the oil produc¬ 
ing industry operating in Oklahoma, Texas and 
Kentucky, during which time he was largely 
awav from Tnd'auannlis. 

In 1898. Mr. VanCamp entered the service of 
the Indiana National Guard as a member of the 
Indianapolis Light Artillery, Battery A and 


with that battery, which was later known as the 
27th Light Battery, Indiana Volunteers, served 
in the Spanish American War in the Porto-Ri- 
can campaign until the close of the war. Later, 
for ten years, he was a member of the Indiana 
National Guard, retiring with the grade of Cap¬ 
tain. 

During the World war, Mr. VanCamp was 
offered a commission as Lieutenant Colonel in 
the Warehouse Division, Quartermaster Corp to 
be stationed at New York. This he declined, 
however, as he saw no opportunity for overseas 
duty, although following that, he furnished sup¬ 
plies for the United States Government at Fort 
Oglethorpe, Georgia; Fort Harrison, Indiana; 
Nitro Plant, Charleston, West Virginia; Avia¬ 
tion Field, Dayton, Ohio; Aviation Repair De¬ 
pot, Indianapolis, and worked, as well, with the 
United States Housing Corporation at Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

In 1921, Mr. VanCamp again actively as¬ 
sumed his duties in the management of the Van 
Camp Hardware & Iron Company, to which he 
has since continuously devoted his entire atten¬ 
tion. 

Mr. VanCamp is a member of the Sons of the 
American Revolution, United Spanish War Vet¬ 
erans, Isaac Walton League of America, the 
Dallas Country Club, Dallas, Texas; Miami 
Anglers Club, Miami, Florida; Biscayne Bay 
Yacht Club, Miami, Florida; Indianapolis 
Country Club, Columbia Club, Woodstock Club, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, Indianapolis Gun 
Club, Indianapolis Dramatic Club, Indianapolis 
Casting Club, Board of Trade and the Chamber 
of Commerce, having been particularly active in 
the trade-expansion movement of the last men¬ 
tioned association. In the fraternal orders he is 
a member of the Benevolent Protective Order 
of Elks, No. 13; Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398 F. 
& A. M., the Scottish Rite, the York Rite and 
the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Air. 
VanCamp is an active Republican and a mem¬ 
ber of the Second Presbyterian Church. 

Mr. VanCamp’s recreation includes fishing, 
hunting and riding and his interest in these has 
taken him all over the country. In 1921 he won 
the Canadian Championship in the Small 
Mouth Black Bass Contest and, as an angler, 
has a national reputation. 

The marriage of Mr. VanCamp to Miss Rosa¬ 
mond McDermott, daughter of Dr. George 
Christie McDermott of Cincinnati, Ohio, took 
place February 1. 1899. There is one daughter, 
Mrs. James McDill Faris, nee Rosamond. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



FREDERICK VAN NUYS 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS AA. E N OP AFFAIRS 


FREDERICK VAN NUYS 

T^REDERICK VAN NUYS, member of the firm of Ralston, Gates, Lairy, Van 
A Nnys and Barnard, attorneys, was born in the village of Falmouth, Rush 
County, Indiana, April 16, 1874, son of Dr. D. H. and Kate (Custer) Van 
Nuys, both natives of Indiana and now deceased. Ilis preliminary education 
was obtained in the public schools of Lebanon, Indiana, after which he attend¬ 
ed Earlham College at Richmond, from which he graduated in 1898 with the 
degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, and the Indiana Law School from which 
he graduated in 1900 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. 

Immediately following his graduation from law school Air. Van Nuys was 
admitted to the Indiana bar and at once began the practice of his profession at 
Shelbyville. One year later he moved to Summitville, Indiana, and there en 
gaged in practice until 1904 when he moved to Anderson, Indiana, there to 
continue his practice until January 1, 1916, when he came to Indianapolis 
where he has since resided. 

In 1906 Air. Van Nuys was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Madison 
County and in this capacity served for two terms. In 1912 he was elected 
to the State Senate and served in that body during the sessions of 1913 and 
1915, in the latter session being president pro tern of the Senate. During the 
session, 1913, he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and of the 
Committee on Manufactories, while during the session of 1915 he was chair¬ 
man of the Committee on Corporations and a member of the Judiciary Com¬ 
mittee and numerous other committees. 

At the conclusion of his service as State Senator Air. Van Nuys moved, 
upon the date above mentioned, to Indianapolis, here to engage in the private 
practice of law. In this he continued until January 11, 1920, when he was 
appointed United States Attorney for the District of Indiana, continuing in 
that position until January 11, 1922, when he resigned to enter the partnership 
of which he is now a member. From 1917 to 1918, Mr. Van Nuys was chair¬ 
man of the Democratic State Central Committee—a war period not to be soon 
forgotten—and of him it has since been said that he was one of the most active 
men in the State in all war work. He added to his political exertions the 
additional task of making speeches all over the State wherever and whenever 
called upon to do so in war loan drives of all sorts, forgetting politics in his 
appeals to patriotism with relation to the raising of war loans or con¬ 
tributions or otherwise. 

Mr. Van Nuys is a member of the Indiana Democratic Club, Highland 
Golf and Country Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
Elks, having filled the chairs in all three of the last mentioned organizations. 
He is also a member of the Indianapolis and Indiana State Bar Associations. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



L. M. WAINWRIGHT 


Photograph hy Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


L. M. WAINWRIGHT 


L UCIUS MORTON WAIN WRIGHT, Amer¬ 
ican inventor and manufacturer, was born 
at Noblesville, Indiana, January 4, 1860, son of 
William Alonzo and Hannah Guy (Pontious) 
Wainwright. The father served during the 
Civil War and for several years afterward as 
quartermaster in the regular army, with the 
rank of major. 

Mr. Wainwright is of remote Welsh descent, 
his earliest ancestor in America, William Wain 
wriglit, having come to this country from west¬ 
ern Wales about 1740, settling in Connecticut. 

As a lad Air. Wainwright gained his edu¬ 
cation in the public schools and high school of 
his native town, and engaged in farm work un¬ 
til his twentieth year. 

In September, 1870, he entered the bicycle 
business, and here his inventive talent was in¬ 
voked with substantial and far-reaching re¬ 
sults. His bicycle crankshaft proved a long 
step in advance, but the invention which has 
been to a very great degree responsible for the 
remarkable growth of the bicycle business, now 
greater thaii at any previous time in its his¬ 
tory, was that of automatic machines for the 
manufacture of sprocket chains. 

In 1890 Air. Wainwright was elected pres¬ 
ident of the Central Cycle Alanufacturing Com¬ 
pany, of Indianapolis, makers of the celebrated 
“Ben ITur” bicycles. In the same year was 
organized the Indianapolis Chain and Stamping 
Company, the first makers of sprocket chains 
in the United States. In 1900 Air. Wainwright 
went over to the latter company as manager 
and began the scientific development of the 
sprocket chain and the chain drive which ha's e 


revolutionized so many installations of power 
transmissions. 

In 1905 Air. AVainwright organized the 
Diamond Chain and Alanufacturing Company, 
which absorbed the Indianapolis Chain and 
Stamping Company. He was made president 
of the new company, in which position he still 
continues. This company now has an invested 
capital of $3,000,000 and employs 1,000 hands. 
Its annual output of 12,000,000 feet of chain is 
larger than that of any similar plant, and is 
shipped to every civilized country in the world. 

Air. Wainwright is a member of the Amer¬ 
ican Society of Alechanical Engineers, the So¬ 
ciety of Automotive Engineers and the Amer¬ 
ican Geographical Society. He is vice-president 
of the Indianapolis Athletic Club and an active 
member of the Columbia Club, Alarion Club, 
Country Club, and the Indianapolis Chamber 
of Commerce. His chosen recreations are those 
of the open air—fishing, hunting, boating and 
golf. 

Air. Wainwright has been twice married. 
His first wife was Aliss AUctoria Harriet Gray, 
whom he married in 1888. She passed away in 
1893. On November 7, 1900, he married Aliss 
Edith E. Palmer of New AMrk. He has one son, 
Guy A. Wainwright, who served during the 
World War in the Rainbow Division as Alajor 
of Artillery and as Lieutenant Colonel in the 
Second Division, and who, since the Armistice, 
has been associated with his father as vice- 
president of the Diamond Chain Company. 

The family resides at 1851 North Pennsyl¬ 
vania Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



CARL F. WALK 


Photograph hy Bretzman 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CARL F. WALK 

^M4RL F. A\ ALK, president of Julius Walk & Son, Inc., was 

born at Indianapolis, August 29, 1870, son of Julius C. and 
Eleanor (Werbe) Walk. His early education was obtained in the 
public grade and high schools of Indianapolis, after which he en¬ 
tered The firm of Bingham & Walk, of which his father was a 
partner. 

In 1889, following the death of Hr. W. P. Bingham, the firm 
was changed to Julius C. Walk under which name the business was 
operated until 1892, when Carl F. Walk, of this sketch, was ad¬ 
mitted into partnership and the name changed to Julius C. Walk 
& Son. 

In 1903 the business was incorporated and of the corporation 
Mr. Walk became the president and in this capacity has continu¬ 
ously conducted the establishment to this time. 

Julius C. Walk & Son, Inc., deal exclusively in diamonds, 
watches, jewelry and fine silverware. The company holds an ex¬ 
clusive agency in Indianapolis for a number of celebrated makes of 
Swiss watches and represents here several manufacturers of fine 
domestic silverware. 

Mr. Walk is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Board 
of Trade, of which he is upon the board of governors, the Columbia 
Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Woodstock Club, Athenaeum, 
Academy of Music, Rotary Club, Contemporary Club and the Sec¬ 
ond Presbyterian Church. In the Masonic fraternity he is a mem¬ 
ber of Ancient Landmarks Lodge, No. 319, F. & A. M., Keystone 
Chapter, Scottish Rite and the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 

The marriage of Mr. Walk to Miss Matliilde E. Brink oc¬ 
curred in Indianapolis, June 8, 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Walk reside 
at 1375 North Meridian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Bretzman 

CARL H. WALLERICH 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


C. H. WALLERICH 

^ARL H. WALLERICH, president of tlie C. H. Wallerich 

Company, was born May 5, 1883, at Sigourney, Iowa, son of 
Mathias and Labette (Wills) Wallerich. Mr. Wallerich of this 
sketch received his education in the public and high schools of 
Des Moines, Iowa, after which, in 3900, lie came to Indianapolis 
and here entered the employe of the H. Lieber Company in the 
department of engineering instruments. 

With this company he remained several years and about 1907 
became assistant sales manager of the Overland Automobile Com- 
pany. Six years later, in 1910, he went to Kokomo as sales man¬ 
ager for the Haynes Automobile Company. One year later, how¬ 
ever, he again affiliated himself with the Willvs-Overland Com¬ 
pany, this time going to Toledo as assistant to the general sales 
manager. 

In 3932 Mr. Wallerich returned to Indianapolis as sales 
manager of the Mais Motor Truck Company. In 1935 he became 
district manager for the Hupp Motor Car Company. In 3918 he 
went to Washington, H. C., where he was in the employ of the 
government, buying motor cars for army use. In 1919 he returned 
to Indianapolis and affiliated with the E. W. Steinhart Company. 
In 3921 he formed the C. H. Wallerich Company, representing 
Dodge Brothers, manufacturers of the motor cars bearing that 
name. 


Mr. Wallerich has a number of club affiliations, belonging to 
the Society of Automobile Engineers, Chamber of Commerce. 
Hoosier Motor Club, Columbia Club, Art Association, Kiwanis 
Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Little Theatre Society, and Athenaeum. 
His Masonic affiliations include Ancient Landmarks, No. 319, 
Keystone Chapter, R. A. M., Indiana Consistory Scottish Rite and 
the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 


On February 9, 3931, Mr. Wallerich married Miss Inez Foley 
in Indianapolis. Air. and Mrs. Wallerich have one daughter, Alice 
Elizabeth. The family resides at 394(1 Washington Boulevard. 


630 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Moorefield 

FRANK WAMPLER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRANK WAMPLER 

F RANK AYAMPLER, member of the Public Ser vice Commission of Indiana, 
and for many years widely known throughout the State of Indiana as a 
public utility official, was born on a farm about a mile east of Gosport, Indi¬ 
ana, June 18, 1875, son of John and Margaret E. (Johns) Wampler. His 
boyhood was spent in Owen county and in the public schools of that county 
his early education was received. In 1895 he conceived the idea of getting Gos¬ 
port into communication with the outside world by means of a telephone sys¬ 
tem, and, as a result of his determination along this line, was placed in charge 
of the local telephone company at Gosport, as manager. 

That was the beginning of his career as a public utility executive. In 1896 
he was made solicitor at Indianapolis for the Central Union Telephone Com¬ 
pany and in that capacity was employed in different towns and cities of the 
state until 1898. He then became special agent for the company with varied 
duties including the “sale” of telephones, and as such served until 1905, when 
he was appointed district superintendent at Terre Haute. In 1909, he returned 
to Indianapolis as district superintendent, holding that position for three 
years until 1912, when he was made general superintendent. In 1920 he was 
elected Vice-President and General Manager, and with the telephone company, 
which in 1920 became the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, he remained until 
August 27, 1922, retiring on that date to independently engage in utility mat¬ 
ters. 

On September 1, 1923, Mr. Wampler became a member of the Indiana 
Public Service Commission, on appointment by Governor Warren T. McCray. 
On that occasion the public press enthusiastically endorsed the appointment, 
referring to Mr. Wampler as a man eminently qualified for the position and as 
one ably equipped to render a fair and impartial service to the Commonwealth. 
This was supplemented by expressions of confidence by the various civic or¬ 
ganizations of the state and by city officials generally. 

When the United States began marshalling and organizing its power, re¬ 
sources and men for the efficient conduct of the World War, Mr. Wampler 
was asked by Governor James P. Goodrich to serve on the State Council of 
Defense of Indiana. He was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Com¬ 
munication and also chairman of the Committee of Employers’ Cooperation 
and while serving in these capacities divided his time and energies between 
the telephone office and the office of the State Council of Defense. 

While Mr. Wampler has until his recent appointment, been too busy for 
public office except so far as he has regarded public service as a duty imposed 
upon him by the World War, he has ever been interested in good government 
and in 1898 held the office of City Clerk of Gosport. 

Mr Wampler is at this time president of the Iloosier Motor Club, a member 
of the Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Indiana Democratic 
dub and in the Masonic fraternity is affiliated with Gosport Lodge No. 91 F. 
& Y m the Scottish Rite and the Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is 
also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of 

Pythias. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



.'VHBHBIK 

Photograph by John T. Berry, Louisville 

HON. WARD H. WATSON 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HON. WARD H. WATSON 

H °n . WARD H. WATSON, for many years prominently iden¬ 
tified with the courts and practice of law in the State of 
Indiana and now senior member of the firm of Watson & Esarey, 
was born in Harrison County, Indiana, November 7, 1859, son of 
Mark F. and Mary M. (Smoots) Watson. His early boyhood was 
spent upon the farm, after which he took a classical course at Dan¬ 
ville, Indiana. He then studied law in the office of his cousin, 
the Hon. James K. Maisli of Jeffersonville, Indiana, and in 1883 
was admitted to the bar. 

From 1883 until the first of 1907, when he took office as Judge 
of the Appellate Court of Indiana, Mr. Watson was actively en¬ 
gaged in the practice of law in Clark County, Indiana, notwith¬ 
standing during 1895 and 1897. he gave much of his time, as State 
Senator from Clark and Jefferson Counties to the sessions of the 
legislature of those years. Since January 1, 1911, after having 
served one term as Judge of the Appellate Court of Indiana, Mr. 
Watson has continuously practiced law in Indianapolis. He has 
also, however, been actively identified since that time with the 
banking interests of this city, having been president of the Secur¬ 
ity Trust Company, 1915 to 1916, and since the year last mentioned, 
upon the board of directors of that institution. Also, since the 
date of its incorporation, in 1891, he has been on the board of di¬ 
rectors of the Bank of Charlestown at Charlestown, Indiana. 

Mr. Watson is a member of the Columbia Club, Jefferson¬ 
ville and Indianapolis Bar Associations, Indiana State Bar Asso¬ 
ciation and a trustee of Moores Hill College, of which he was presi¬ 
dent of the board from 1911 to 1916. 

On January 15, 1890, Mr. Watson married Miss Edith R. 
Barnett at Charlestown, Indiana. Mrs. Watson died January 29, 
1910. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Dexheimcr 


GEORGE A. WEIDELY 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


GEORGE A. WEIDELY 


(~^EORGE A. WEIDELY, vice-president and cliief engineer of 
tlie AYeidely Alotois Company was born in Switzerland, De¬ 
cember 19, 1870, son of Rudolph and Rose (Meyer) AYeidely. His 
early education was obtained in the public and high schools of the 
country of his birth and was of such high order as to win a scholar¬ 
ship in one of the national Technical Schools of Switzerland 
where he spent a period of two years. At the expiration of that 
time, when seventeen years of age, he came to the United States. 


He reached this country in 1897 and soon found employment 
in Akron, Ohio, as a machinist. Later he became associated with 
the B. F. Goodrich Company at Akron, Ohio, with which company 
he remained until October, 1897, when he came to Indianapolis as 
master mechanic of the G. & J. Tire Company of this city and of 
which he later became superintendent. 


On December 21, 1902, Air. AYeidely, together with Air. H. O. 
Smith, began the organization of the Premier Alotor Manufac- 
turing Company, Air. AYeidely assuming charge of the engineer¬ 
ing department. This company continued in business for a period 
of nearly fourteen years when, upon its disintegration, Air. 
AYeidely, in 1915, was instrumental in the creation of the AYeidely 
Alotois Company, of which he became vice-president and general 
manager. 

To Air. AYeidely is attributed much of the success of the motor 
car industry of today. He has given much to the automotive 
world, as evidenced by the fact that several mechanical devices 
which could hardly be dispensed with at this time have been pat¬ 
ented by him and stand under his name at the Bureau of Patents 
at AYashington, D. C. 

Air. AYeidely is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Columbia Club, and is affiliated with the Alasonic fraternity. He 
married Aliss Jennie Long at Kent, Ohio, February 4, 1892. There 
is one son, AYalter A. AYeidely. The family residence is at 4460 
Park Avenue. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Dcxheimer 

DR. JOEL WHITAKER 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


DR. JOEL WHITAKER 

V) R. JOEL WHITAKER. Ophthalmologist, was born at War- 

ronton, North Carolina, October 5,1877, son of Joel and Helen 
(Jones) Whitaker. His early education was obtained at Raleigh 
(North Carolina) AI a 1 e Academy, after which he attended the 
North Carolina State College and then the University of North 
Carolina. 

Following this course of study, Dr. Whitaker attended the 
University of Maryland Medical School, from which he graduated 
in 1899 with the degree of D. D. S. and in 1900 with the degree of 
M. D. In 1905 he took a post-graduate in the diseases of the eye, 
ear, nose and throat at the University of Maryland and in the same 
year pursued a clinical course at the Presbyterian Eye and Ear 
Hospital at Baltimore, Maryland. 

During 1906-7 he was residence physician at the Presbyterian 
Eye and Ear Hospital at Baltimore which, until 1915, was fol¬ 
lowed by the general practice of the treatment of diseases of the 
eye, ear, nose and throat at Raleigh, North Carolina. In that year, 
however, Dr. Whitaker came to Indianapolis and here he has since 
devoted himself exclusively to ophthalmology—diseases of the eye. 

During his collegiate training Dr. Whitaker was actively iden¬ 
tified with the football and baseball teams of the Universities 
attended. He was for two years on the football and baseball teams 
of North Carolina State College, for three years and two years 
respectively on the football and baseball teams of the University 
of North Carolina and for two years on the football and baseball 
teams of the University of Maryland. 

Dr. Whitaker is a member of the American Medical Society, 
Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the Chicago 
Ophthalmology Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, Indi¬ 
anapolis Medical Society and the Indianapolis Review Club. In 
addition to these he is a member of the Columbia Club, Indianap¬ 
olis Athletic Club, Woodstock Club, and is affiliated with the 
Masonic bodies. 

The marriage of Dr. Whitaker to Miss Mellisa Myers, daugh¬ 
ter of the late Quincy A. and Jessie (Cornelius) Myers, occurred 
November 23,1910. There are two children, Quincy Myers Whita¬ 
ker and Helen Courtnay Whitaker. The family residence is at 
1707 North Pennsylvania Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



JACOB S. WHITE 


Photograph by Moorefield 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JACOB S. WHITE 

T ACOB S. WHITE, senior member of the firm of White, Wright 
J & McKay, is a native Hoosier, having been born at Rockville, 
Indiana, February 14, 1877, son of Ared F. and Sarah (Strauss) 
White. He obtained his early education in the public schools of 
Rockville, after which he attended DePauw University and the 
University of Chicago. When twenty-one years of age he was ad¬ 
mitted to practice of law before the Indiana Bar and in this he has 
continuously engaged to the present time. 

The first association of Mr. White in the practice of law was 
at Rockville with James T. Johnston under the firm name of 
Johnston & White. This continued until 1904 when, upon the 
death of Mr. Johnston, a partnership was formed with Hon. Ared 
F. White (the father of the subject of this sketch) and this con- 
tinned until January 1, 1914, when Mr. H. A. Henderson was 
taken into the firm and the firm changed to White, White and 
Henderson. Upon the death of Mr. White, Sr. (January 11,1914), 
the firm of White & Henderson was formed to continue until 
1918, when Mr. White came to Indianapolis and here formed the 
firm of which he is now a member. 

Mr. White, until a few years ago, was actively identified with 
the Republican party and in 1909 and 1911 represented Parke 
County in the Indiana House of Representatives. In 1912 he was 
a delegate from the fifth district to the Republican National Con¬ 
vention held at Chicago and in which the Hon. William Howard 
Taft was nominated to the presidency of the United States. 

Mr. White is a member of the Country Club of Indianapolis, 
Columbia Club, Beta Theta Pi college fraternity and Parke Lodge, 
No. 8, F. & A. M. He is also a member of the Indiana State Bar 
Association and the American Bar Association. 

The marriage of Mr. White to Miss Bertha C. Stark, occurred 
at Rockville, Ind., January 1, 1903. There is one daughter, Ruth 
Hobbs. 


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WALTER T. WHITE 


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WALTER T. WHITE 

W ALTER T. WHITE, owner of the Walter T. White Company, realtors, 
/40 Consolidated Building, was born at Franklin, Indiana, February 16, 
1S7(, son of William H. White, M. D. and Nettie (Rechords) White. The 
father was of old staunch Republican Kentucky stock, while the mother, a native 
Hoosier, was born in Johnson County, Indiana, upon property that her father, 
as an old settler, had originally cleared. 

The early education of the subject of this sketch was obtained in the com¬ 
mon schools of Franklin and Edinburg, Indiana, after which in 1895 he went to 
work for the American Tin Plate Company at Elwoocl, Indiana. With this 
company he served for a period of two years when he left El wood and came to 
Indianapolis, thus gratifying a long desire to come to this city even though it 
should become necessary to do so at a material financial sacrifice. 

In September 1897 Mr. White became associated with the Stout Shoe Com¬ 
pany and with this organization remained for a period of twelve years, with the 
exception of an interval of approximately two years during which he was em¬ 
ployed by the Marott Shoe Store. 

Upon leaving the Stout Shoe Company in 1909 Mr. White held the position 
of manager of the Washington Street Store and consultant buyer, a position 
that he was assured would remain with him as long as he desired to continue 
with the company. During the last few years of his association with the Stout 
Shoe Company, however, he had become so strongly interested in the real estate 
business that he determined to devote all of his energies to this work. 

After leaving the shoe business Mr. White was, for a period of years, asso¬ 
ciated in official capacities with a real estate corporation of this city, of which 
he was secretary and treasurer at the end of which time he organized the Walter 
T. White Company. 

Since entering the real estate business Air. White has been instrumental in 
many large and successful real estate transactions. He has brought about the 
execution of leases upon down-town property and the sale of many important 
tracts of land. In addition to these he has given much time to the sale of sub¬ 
divisions, the Blue Ridge and Forest Ridge Additions being the most outstand¬ 
ing during recent years. The property, immediately west known as Fairview 
Park, and comprising 246 acres of ground, was recently purchased by Butler 
College for its new University. 

Mr. White, who has always taken an active interest in all civic affairs per¬ 
taining to the development of Indianapolis, stands out prominently among busi¬ 
ness and professional men of Indianapolis as a striking example of the type of 
man who, possessed with energy and determination, can come into a large city 
as a total stranger and by clean and active business methods establish a clientele 
and acquaintance of enviable proportions. 

lie is a member of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Columbia Club, and the Kiwanis Club, of 
which he was president in 1922. In addition to these he is a member of Ancient 
Landmarks Lodge No. 319 F. & A. M., a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner 
of the (Murat Temple. Since his first arrival in Indianapolis, Mr. White has 
been a member of Central Christian Church of which he is now a deacon. 

The marriage of Mr. White to Miss Minnie B. Yockey occurred in Indian¬ 
apolis, June 27. 1900. There is one daughter, (Miss Blanche x\nnette, now a 
student at the University of Indiana. 


INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



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C. E. WHITEHILL 


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C. E. WHITEHILL 

C" 1 E. WHITEHILL, president of the Banner Furniture Oom- 

pany, operating retail furniture stores in Indianapolis and 
Muncie, Indiana, and Toledo, Ohio, was born at Tylersburg, 
Pennsylvania, May 6, 1876, son of Ami S. and Susan Margaret 
(Everheart) Whitehall. Graduating from Mt. Union College at 
Alliance, Ohio, Mr. Wliitehill entered the teaching profession in 
Forest County, Pennsylvania, and there became superintendent 
of schools. Later he went to Muncie, Indiana, where he assisted 
in the publication of the first issues of the Muncie Star, now one 
of the Star League newspapers in Indiana. 

After a short period of time with the newspaper, however. 
Mr. Wliitehill went to Chicago to become associated with the Re¬ 
public Iron & Steel Company which was then in process of organi¬ 
zation. In 1902 he returned to Muncie and in that city established 
the Banner Furniture Company, the first of the eight retail furni¬ 
ture stores which now comprise the Banner chain of stores. In 
1913 he bought the Nugent Furniture Company Store at Toledo, 
Ohio, the oldest establishment of its kind in that citv, and later in 
the same year purchased the Rhodes-Burford Furniture Store at 
Indianapolis. Subsequently, in 1916, Mr. Wliitehill purchased 
the Oiler Brotheis Furniture Store located in Indianapolis, which 
in 1917, he consolidated with the interests previously noted, into 
what has since been known as the Banner Furniture Company, at 
33 South Meridian Street. 

Mr. Wliitehill is a member of the Indianapolis, Muncie and 
Toledo Chambers of Commerce, a member of the Columbia Club, 
Indianapolis Athletic Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, and 
in his fraternal connections is a member of the Muncie Lodge, F. 
& A. M., the Consistory and the Murat Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine, Fraternal Order of Elks, No. 215, Muncie, Ind., and the 
Alpha Tau Omega college fraternity. 

The marriage of Mr. Wliitehill to Miss Estella Bard occurred 
at Muncie, Indiana, August 2, 1899. There are three children, 
Eugene Wliitehill, who is associated with his father in business, 
Ralph Bard Wliitehill and Helen Margaret Wliitehill. The busi¬ 
ness address is 616 Merchants Bank Building and the family home 
is at Michigan Hills near the new Highland Golf and Country 

Club. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



HOMER L. WIEGAND 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


HOMER L. WIEGAND 

TJOMER L. WIEGAND, secretary and treasurer of A. Wieg- 

aud’s Sons Company, florists, is a native of Indianapolis, 
having been born in this city, January 2, 1877, son of Anthony 
and Katherine (Ivreiss) Wiegand. The father was born in the 
kingdom of Saxony, Germany, April 25,1832, and in that country 
gained his initial training as a florist. When twenty-two years 
of age lie came to the United States and in Indianapolis, in 1859, 
established a green house in the old district school building on 
Kentucky Avenue. At that location he continued operations with 
ever increasing success until 1879, when he removed the business 
to the present location of A. Wiegand's Sons Company on North 
Illinois Street. 

Homer L. Wiegand, of this sketch, obtained his education in 
the public schools of Indianapolis, after which he became associat¬ 
ed in business with his father, being admitted, with his brother, 
Mr. George B. Wiegand, into partnership in 1910, under the firm 
name of Wiegand & Sons. Shortly after the death of Mr. Anth¬ 
ony Wiegand, which occurred December 13, 1910, the partnership 
was incorporated under the name of A. Wiegand’s Sons Company 
and to this both Mr. George B., who is president of the corpora¬ 
tion, and Mr. Homer L., devote their entire attention. 

Mr. Wiegand is a member of the Columbia Club, Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, Marion Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, 
Iviwanis Club, Elks, and in the Masonic fraternity is identified 
with Ancient Landmarks Lodge, No. 319, Keystone Chapter, Indi¬ 
anapolis Council, Baper Commandery, Scottish Rite, and the 
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine, being a life member of the 
last mentioned. 

The marriage of Mr. Wiegand to Miss Ester Spicer took place 
at Indianapolis, February 11, 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Wiegand reside 
at Kessler Boulevard and Twenty-eighth Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



J. F. WILD 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


JOHN FRANKLIN WILD 

T OHN FRANKLIN WILD, banker, president of the J. F. Wild 
J & Company, State bank, was born at Noblesville, Indiana, Sep¬ 
tember 9, 1860, son of Leonard and Margaret (Barth) Wild. He 
received his education in the Noblesville public schools. 

At the age of nineteen years he was admitted to partnership 
with his father in the dry goods business at Noblesville, the firm 
being known in 1879 as L. Wild & Son. He continued in this 
business until 1881, when he moved to Anderson, Indiana, and 
there established the J. F. Wild & Company Dry Goods Store. 
He retired from that business in 1891 to engage in the private 
banking business under the firm name of Campbell, Wild & Com¬ 
pany. 

In 1901 Mr. Wild moved the private banking business to Indi¬ 
anapolis and, after acquiring Mr. Campbell’s interest, founded 
J. F. Wild & Company, state bank at 123 East Market Street. 

Mr. Wild has for many years been actively identified with 
the Y. M. C. A. He w r as chairman of the committee which built 
the Indianapolis building at Illinois and New 7 York Streets and 
for more than a decade has been an official of the association. He 
was president of the Y. M. C. A. from May 1, 1915, to February 1, 
1920, and since January 1, 1905, has continuously been a member 
of the board of directors. Mr. Wild is a member of the First 
Presbyterian Church, having been for many years superintendent 
of the Sunday School and from January 1, 1905, to this writing, 
upon the Board of Elders. 

He is a member of the Columbia Club, Oriental Lodge, No. 
500, F. & A. M„ Keystone Chapter, No. 6, Royal Arch Masons, 
Raper Commandery, No. I, Knights Templar, Indiana Consistory, 
Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, the Scottish Rite and the 
Mystic Shrine. 

As an indication of the remarkable strides made by the J. F. 
Wild banking house, it is of interest to here note that early in 
1923, the company completed the erection of the new twelve-storv 
building, in which it is now 7 located on East Market Street and 
which replaced the old two-story structure outgrown by an or¬ 
ganization destined from the beginning to need larger and more 
elaborate quarters. 

On September 9, 1891, Mr. Wild married Miss Minnie M. 
Hannah, of Chicago, Illinois. The} 7 have three children, John E., 
Hannah F., and Forrey Neil Wild. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



FRED I. WILLIS 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRED I. WILLIS 

PRED I. WILLIS, vice-president and sales manager of the 

Central Rubber and Supply Company, son of Frank W. and 
Josephine (Dickinson) Willis, was born at Waterloo, Indiana, 
on September 27, 1873. He secured his education in the public 
schools of Waterloo. 

Mr. Willis came to Indianapolis in 1894 and was one of the 
men to become associated in the bicycle business early in the his¬ 
tory of that industry. Twenty years later he joined the Central 
Rubber and Supply Company, 120 South Meridian Street, which 
is one of the oldest supply houses of its kind in the city. 

His business activity led to selection as a vice-president of the 
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce in 1914. A year later he 
became president of the Chamber of Commerce, and under his 
leadership the present program of industrial, business and civic 
activity of the organization was started. During his term a reor¬ 
ganization of the Chamber of Commerce was effected and an 
increased membership resulted. 

In 1916 Mr. Willis was chosen president of the Hoosier Motor 
Club, and his intense activity for the club resulted in stimulated 
interest in that organization and an important program of pro¬ 
gress. He was at one time president of the National Association 
of Bicycle Dealers. 

It is of interest to note here that Mr. Willis has probably been 
continuously identified with the automobile industry longer than 
any man in Indianapolis. 

Mr. Willis is a past master of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. 
and A. M., a member of the Scottish and York Rite Masonic bodies 
and Mystic Shrine, a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of 
Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, the Hoosier Motor Club, and the 
Hoosier Square and Compass Club. He is an elder of the Taber¬ 
nacle Presbyterian Church and a member of the church’s building 
committee which was in charge of the building of the new church 
at Central Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street. It is one of the fin¬ 
est church structures in the Middle West, In addition to these 
associations he is also a director of the National City Bank. 

On December 23, 1896, Mr. Willis married Miss Martha E. 
Rothrock at Indianapolis. They have two children: Grace B., a 
teacher of languages at the Technical High School, and Fred I. 
Willis, Jr. The family home is at 2516 North Pennsylvania Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Bretsman 

DR. WILLIAM N. WISHARD 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 

DR. WILLIAM NILES WISHARD 


D R. WILLIAM NILES WISHARD, for many years 
prominently identified with the medical profes¬ 
sion of Indianapolis and a nationally recognized 
authority upon the treatment of genito-urinary and ven¬ 
ereal diseases, was born at Greenwood, Johnson County, 
Indiana, October 10, 1851, son of Dr. William H. and 
Hariet N. (Moreland) Wishard. The former was, until 
his death on December 9, 1913, among those to hold a 
position of high esteem in the medical profession of the 
Commonwealth and a place of marked distinction in the 
community of which he was a member. William Wish¬ 
ard, a great-grandfather of the subject of this review, 
was a native of Scotland, immigranting to America in 
1774. 

Putting the services of father and son together, the 
name Wishard has been continuously prominent in In¬ 
diana medical circles for over three quarters of a cen¬ 
tury, the activities of the two being largely contemporan¬ 
eous. Dr. William N. Wishard began practice in 1874 
and, while his father was one of the most outstanding 
of the old time general practioners, his own work has 
been largely as a specialist. 

As a boy he attended local public schools, spent one 
year in a private school at Tecumsch, Michigan, and 
finished his high school course at Southport, Indiana. 
From there he entered Wabash College at Crawfords- 
viile but was unable to complete the literary course on 
account of ill health. In view of his subsequent attain¬ 
ments, however, that college conferred upon him the 
degree of Master of Arts in 1891. In 1871, he entered 
the Indiana Medical College, Indianapolis, from which 
he graduated in 1874, with the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine. For a brief time thereafter he Avas with his 
father at Southport and during 1875-76 continued his 
medical education at the Miami Medical College at 
Cincinnati, which also awarded him the degree of 
Doctor of Medicine in 1876. Since that year his home 
and activities have been centered at Indianapolis. 

Among other distinctions connected with his service, 
Dr. Wishard has long been known as the “father” of 
the Indianapolis City Hospital, of which he Avas superin¬ 
tendent from 1879 to 1887. He not only supervised the 
technique and efficiency of the hospital, but made the 
original draft of the plans for the netv hospital, built 
1883-5. As an auxiliary to the hospital he brought 
about the founding of the Indianapolis Training School 
for Nurses, the first institution of its kind in Indiana 
and the second in the entire Avest, After retiring from 
the superintendency in 1887 Dr. Wishard continued foi 
many years a member of the attending staff of surg¬ 
eons and when he resigned he AA'as made a member of 
the consulting staff, which position he has since held. 
While hospital superintendent he was also lecturer on 
clinical medicine in the Medical College of Indiana. 
Dr. Wishard has also served on the consulting staff of 
the St. Vincent Hospital, the Protestant Deaconess Hos¬ 
pital, the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, the Bobbs Dis¬ 
pensary, and the Indianapolis City Dispensary. Since 
1910 the larger part of his operative work has been 
done at the Methodist Hospital. 

After leaving the management of the City Hospital 
in 1887 he spent a period of post-graduate study in Noav 
York City, and since then lias specialized entirely 
in genito-urinary surgery. On returning to ndi 
anapolis he was elected professor of Genito-Urmary 
Surgery in the Medical College of Indiana. Dr. Vis- 


hard has also spent much time abroad, and has im¬ 
proved his oavii technique by extensive associations Avith 
the most eminent specialists in his field in the world. 
For upwards of thirty-five years he has been one of 
Indiana’s foremost specialists in this field and patients 
come to him from all over the State and outside the 
State. He is credited Avith having performed the first, 
or one of the very first operations on record for removal 
of the lateral lobes of the prostate gland through a 
perineal opening. He also invented an instrument for 
use of the galvanic cautery on the prostate gland through 
perineal opening. He Avas the first phvsician in Indiana 
and one of the first, in the United States to make an 
exclusive specialty of Genito-Urinary Surgery and the 
first in Indiana to remove the prostate Avhich he suc¬ 
cessfully did in April, 1890. 

Besides his individual work and prominence as an 
authority, Dr. Wishard has rendered an invaluable ser¬ 
vice to the medical profession in general and specially 
through its organizations. It Avas in no small measure 
under his leadership that the three schools of medicine, 
the Medical College of Indiana, the Central College of 
Physicians and Surgeons of Indianapolis, and the Fort 
Wayne Medical College Avere merged into one complete 
and adequate school, knoAvn as the Indiana Medical Col¬ 
lege and being the medical department of Purdue Uni- 
A T ersity and hoav the Indiana University School of 
Medicine. 

For tAventy-four years he served as chairman of the 
committee on Public Policy and Legislation for the 
Indiana State Medical Society. In that capacity 
he Avrote the Indiana Iuav governing the practice 
of medicine as passed by the Legisature in 1897. 
He is an honored member and former president 
of the Marion County Medical Society; the Indiana State 
Medical Society, Avliich he served as president in 1898; 
the American Medical Association, the American Asso¬ 
ciation of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, the American 
Urological Association and the Mississippi Valley Medi¬ 
cal Association, having also served as president of the 
last tAvo associations. He was first vice-president of the 
American Medical Association in 1919. He Avas a mem¬ 
ber of the Indiana State Board of Health from 1900 to 
1912 and its president at the time he resigned from the 
board. In 1906 lie Avas made a member of the National 
Urological Society of France. 

Dr. Wishard is affiliated with the Republican party 
in politics and is an active member of the First Presby¬ 
terian Church of Indianapolis in which he holds the 
position of elder and has served as commissioner to the 
General Assembly of the church. He is also a member 
of Contemporary Club and the Columbia Club, being a 
charter member of the latter. He received the degree 
of L. L. D. in 1919, from the College of Wooster in 
recognition of the constructive character of his medical 
and public health legislative work. 

The marriage of Dr. Wishard to Miss Alice M. 
Woollen, daughter of the late William Wesley and Sarah 
(Young) Woollen, took place at Indianapolis May 20 
1880. Mrs. Wishard died December 9, 1880. On June 
17, 1896, Dr. Wishard married Miss Frances C. Scoville, 
daughter of Charles E. and Helen Frances (IIoAvell/ 
Scoville, at Evansville, Indiana. To this union five 
children Avere bom, three dving in infancy, the other tAvo 
being William Niles, Jr., and Charles Scoville, the latter 
a student in \\ illiams College and the former a graduate 
of Williams and hoav a student in Harvard Medical. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



H. H. WOODSMALL 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


H. H. WOODSMALL 

H II. WOODSMALL, president of the H. II. Woodsmall Company, is one 
• of those well-known men who are always referred to by their initials, 
and though Mr. Woodsmall was christened Hubert Howes Woodsmall, it is as 
“H. II.” that he is known. 

Mr. Woodsmall was originally a Southerner, having been horn in Macon, 
Georgia, December 20, 1875, son of Harrison and Mary (Howes) Woodsmall. 
His father was a Baptist minister, and when LI. II. was still a little boy his 
father moved to Franklin, Indiana. Franklin College is a Baptist institution, 
and the elder Woodsmall was a trustee until the time of his death, which oc¬ 
curred when the subject of this sketch was but thirteen years of age, so it was 
but a natural course of events that, after H. H. had received the necessary pre¬ 
liminary education, he should enter Franklin College. 

After leaving college, through which he worked his way, Mr. Woodsmall 
went to Bloomfield, Indiana, where he received his first experience in the in¬ 
surance world. From Bloomfield he went to Muncie, where he became a member 
of the largest insurance firm in that city. It was in 1902, when the firm re¬ 
moved to Indianapolis, that Mr. Woodsmall came to this city. 

LTpon leaving the company in 1906, Mr. Woodsmall decided to begin an 
independent career. The original firm name was the same as it is today, H. H. 
Woodsmall Company, but the business has grown and expanded, and included 
new interests and ramifications, until at this time it transacts the largest line 
of insurance business of any insurance agency in the state of Indiana, acting 
as local, state, and general agent in all lines of insurance. 

Mr. Woodsmall is also president of the Midamerican Mutual Casualty Com¬ 
pany, transacting a large casualty business in the central western states; presi¬ 
dent of the Union Insurance Company of Indianapolis, which has been in busi¬ 
ness for a long period of years, and which is the largest casualty and fire in¬ 
surance company in Indiana; secretary-treasurer of the Capitol Amusement 
Company, operating the Rialto, Lenwood and Gayety theatres; he is treasurer 
of the Woodlawn Cemetery Company, secretary-treasurer of the Remedial 
Loan Company, president of the Hollywood Finance Company of Florida, 
secretary-treasurer of the Bastian Supply and Construction Company of Flor¬ 
ida, president of the Woodsmall Realty Company, treasurer of the Lafayette 
Apartment Company and of the Delaware Improvement Corporation. 

Aside from these affiliations Mr. Woodsmall has also been active in local 
financial circles. He helped to form and was the first vice-president of the old 
Indiana State Bank, later known as the Commercial National Bank, and in ad¬ 
dition to this was one of the organizers of the Northwestern State Bank, the 
Lawrence State Bank and the East Tenth Street State Bank. He is now a 
director of the Fidelity Trust Company. 

lie is a member of Mystic Tie Lodge, F. and A. M.; the Chapter of Royal 
Arch Masons and the Commanderv, Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Scot¬ 
tish Rite, and the Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Phi Delta 
Theta fraternity, the Columbia Club, Marion Club, and the Indianapolis 

Athletic Club. 

On June 1, 1899, Mr. Woodsmall married Miss Lelia Crim, and they have 
three children : Harry C. Woodsmall, Barret M. Woodsmall and H. H. Wood- 
small Jr Their home is at 3311 North Meridian Street. 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



EVANS WOOLLEN 


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INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EVANS WOOLLEN 

E \ ANS WOOLLEN, president of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company 
and prominently identified with other business and civic institutions of 
the Hoosier Capitol, was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, November 28, 1864, 
son of William Watson Woollen and Mary A. (Evans) Woollen. He obtained 
his early education in the city of his birth, after which he attended Yale Uni¬ 
versity, from which he received the degree of Bachelor Arts in 1886 and the 
degree of Master of Arts in 1888. 

Thereafter Mr. Woollen spent a year at Wabash, Indiana, as the secretary 
of a gas company in that city. Returning to Indianapolis he studied law, served 
as secretary of the Commercial Club and became assistant to the general counsel 
of the Big Four Railroad. Later Mr. Woollen became counsel of the Ameri¬ 
can National Bank and at the time of the consolidation of that institution in 
1910 with the Fletcher National Bank, became vice-president and counsel of the 
Fletcher American National Bank. 


In 1912 he became president of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, 
which was created in that year by the merger of the Marion Trust Company 
and the German American Trust Company. 


In 1916 Mr. Woollen organized The Indianapolis Foundation, under the 
plan of which three of the larger trust companies of the state administer gifts 
and bequests, the income of which is to be distributed by a non-political and 
non-sectarian hoard throughout the future for the welfare of citizens of Indian¬ 
apolis. In this connection it is of interest to note that The Indianapolis Foun¬ 
dation was the first in the country to adopt the “multiple trusteeship” plan, 
which now has come to be recognized as the most satisfactory form of the new 
community trust idea. 

During the World War Mr. Woollen was a member of the Indiana State 
Council of Defense and in 1917-18 was Federal Fuel Administrator for Indi¬ 
ana. For part of that period he was called to Washington to serve under Fuel 
Administrator Harry A. Garfield, as acting director of the Bureau of State 
Organization. Mr. Woollen is a member of the Economic Policy Commission 
of the American Bankers’ Association and is at this time vice-president of the 
trust company division of that body, having served in 1922 as chairman of the 
executive commmittee of the division. In 1921-22 he was also chairman for 
Indiana of the War Finance Corporation. 


Mr. Woollen is president of the Art Association of Indianapolis, president 
of the Board of Children’s Guardians, President of the Charity Organization 
Societv vice-president of the Community Chest, a director of Crown Hill 
Cemetery Association, a director of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville 
Railroad and a member of the University Club. Woodstock Club, Contemporary 
('hili Indianapolis Literary Society and the Dramatic Club. He is also an 
elder in the First Presbyterian Chuich. 


The marriage of Mr. Woollen to Miss Nancy Baker, daughter of Governor 
and Mrs Conrad Baker, occurred at Indianapolis. June 10, 1896. To this 
union two children have been born, Evans Jr., who is identified with the 
Fletcher Savings and Trust Company and Rachel, who died in infancy. 


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HERBERT M. WOOLLEN 

LTERBERT M. WOOLLEN, president of the American Cen- 
A tral Life Insurance Company, was born at Indianapolis, In¬ 
diana, December 1, 1875, the son of Milton A. and Ida (Baird) 
Woollen. His early education was obtained in the public schools, 
including the Manual Training High School, of this city, after 
which he attended Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana, for 
two years. He then entered the University of Wisconsin and from 
that institution was graduated in 1900, with the degree of Bache¬ 
lor of Science. 

Upon the completion of his university course Mr. Woollen de¬ 
termined to study medicine and for the following three years at¬ 
tended the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons and the 
Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis. From the latter college 
he graduated in 1903 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. This 
was followed by post-graduate work in the New York Eye and 
Ear Infirmary and the New York Polyclinic. 

Upon his return to Indianapolis in 1904, he became associated 
with his uncle, Dr. G. Y. Woollen, and for a period of six years 
was engaged in the practice of medicine. During this time he was 
connected with the ear, nose and throat clinic and with the depart¬ 
ment of Bacteriology of the Indiana Medical College, as a lec¬ 
turer upon subjects pertaining to these branches. During his ac¬ 
tive practice Dr. Woollen was also a member of the Board of 
Managers of the Medical Section of the American Life Conven¬ 
tion, composed of Medical Directors of insurance companies. 

In 1904 Dr. Woollen became assistant medical director of the 
American Central Life Insurance Company of which he subse¬ 
quently became secretary and vice-president and, in 1912, the 
president. 

Mr. Woollen is a member of the Country Club, the Woodstock 
Club, the University Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the 
Dramatic Club, the Contemporary Club and of the Ancient Ac¬ 
cepted Scottish Rite Masonic fraternity. He is also a member 
of the Phi Delta Theta college and Phi Rho Signa medical frater¬ 
nities. 

The marriage of Mr. Woollen to Miss Irma Woclier, of Indi¬ 
anapolis occurred in this city January 7, 1907. The family resi¬ 
dence is at 1719 North Pennsylvania Street. 


667 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



FRANK F. WOOLLING 


Photograph by Bretzman 


668 








INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


FRANK F. WOOLLING 

JO RANK F. WOOLLING, son of Joseph H. and Mattie J. 

(Freeman) Woolling, was born at Lawrencebnrg, Indiana, 
October 25, 1888. His early education was obtained in the public 
schools of Indianapolis, after which he attended Butler College 
until 1911, when he entered the real estate and building construc¬ 
tion business, in which he has since been continuously engaged. 

Mr. Woolling has been actively identified with various politi¬ 
cal and civic undertakings of the city and state for a number of 
years. He is a past president of the Indiana Democratic Club and 
is now a member of the board of directors of that organization. 
In addition to this, he is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic 
Club and the Masonic bodies, including Oriental Lodge, No. 500, 
F. & A. M., the Scottish Rite and the Murat Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine. 

In 1920 Mr. Woolling was nominated for the office of treas¬ 
urer of Marion County on the Democratic ticket but was defeated 
in the general election which followed the primary. 

The marriage of Mr. Woolling to Miss Bernice Porter took 
place at Indianapolis, May 2, 1912. There are four children, 
Joseph Porter, Bettie Sue, George Rich and Robert Franklin. 


669 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



KENNETH K. WOOLLING 


Photograph by Bretzman 











INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


KENNETH K. WOOLLING 


T^ENNETH K. WOOLLING, member of the firm of J. Edwin 
Kopf & Woolling, architects and engineers, is a native IToos- 
ier, having been born at Bluffton, Indiana, October 12, 1890, son 
of Joseph TT. and flattie J. (Freeman) Woolling. His prelimin¬ 
ary education was obtained in the public schools of Indianapolis, 
having been brought to this city by his parents when but a few 
years of age. Upon his graduation from Shortridge High School, 
he then attended Butler College for a period of one year, after 
which he associated with his father in the publishing business. In 
that business he remained until he entered the real estate and con¬ 
struction business, being instrumental in the promotion and erec¬ 
tion of various apartment houses in Indianapolis. 


In 1913, together with Mr. J. Edwin Kopf, elsewhere men¬ 
tioned in this volume, he formed the present firm of which be has 
continuously been a member. The firm of J. Edwin Kopf & Wool- 
ling, in addition to its practice of architecture and engineering 
has, since its inception, been actively identified with the promotion 
and financing of many buildings for both commercial and residen¬ 
tial purposes. In this connection it is of interest to here refer to 
the new Buick building recently completed on Meridian at Thir¬ 
teen Street for the Buick Motor Company of Flint, Michigan, a 
division of the General Motors. In this instance the firm, under 
the personal direction of Mr. Woolling who devotes his principal 
energies to this branch of the business, organized the Meridian & 
Thirteenth Realty Company, of which Mr. Woolling is the vice- 
president, financed the purchase of the property, erected the build¬ 
ing and, in turn, negotiated the lease jointly to the Buick Motor 
Company and the General Motors Corporation. 

Mr. Woolling is a member of the Indiana Society of Archi¬ 
tects, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Indiana Democratic Club, John 
Herron Art Institute, the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
Elks No. 13, American Legion, Forty and Eight, Delta Tau Delta 
college fraternity, and in the Masonic fraternity is a member of 
Oriental Lodge No. 500, F. & A. M., Oriental Chapter, Demolay 
Commandery, the Grotto and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 


At the outbreak of the European World War Mr. Woolling 
enlisted in the Air Service, United States Army and until nearly 
six months after the Armistice was stationed at various training 
camps and flying fields, being discharged in May of 1919 as a Re¬ 
serve Militarv Aviator. 


The marriage of Mr. Woolling to Miss Marie M. Rail oc¬ 
curred at Greenfield, Indiana, June 25, 1913. There are three 
children, Alice Marie, Kenneth Rau and John Le Tellier. 


671 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



CHARLES E. WORRELL 


Photograph by Bretsman 


672 







INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


CHARLES E. WORRELL 

^HARLES E. WORRELL, proprietor of the American Drv 

Cleaners ancl Dyers, was born at Seymour, Indiana, August 
24, 1872, son of Preston L. and Phoebe J. (Shepard) Worrell. 
His education was obtained in the public schools of Indianapolis 
(having been removed by his parents to this city when but twelve 
years of age) and under private instructors and at a business col¬ 
lege from which he graduated in 1892. 

The first business enterprise of Mr. Worrell was in the em¬ 
ploye of the old Bliss-Swain Company, clothiers, with whom he 
remained for a number of years in various capacities. During all 
of his association with that firm he was formulating his plans for 
the future and in this connection it is of interest to here note that 
long before engaging in business for himself he determined to 
study the dry cleaning and dyeing industry to the end that he might 
eventually be able to engage successfully in that particular line of 
business. 

In 1908, he organized the American Dry Cleaners and Dyers 
and to this he has since continuously given his undivided attention. 
The company while prepared to care for the cleaning and finish¬ 
ing of all such articles of wearing apparel and household furnish¬ 
ings as are customarily handled by cleaners and dyers, specializes 
particularly on the cleaning and dyeing of women’s wear and in 
this department, as well as in others, it has gained an enviable posi¬ 
tion among those engaged in this business. 

Mr. Worrell is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Marion Club, Kiwanis Club, Optimist Club, and in the Masonic 

fraternity is a member of Oriental Lodge, No. 500, E. & A. M. 

The marriage of Mr. Worrell to Miss Jeanette Howie occurred 

at Indianapolis, October 20,1897. Mr. and Mrs. Worrell reside at 
3524 Birch wood Avenue. 


673 


INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



674 









INDIANAPOLIS 


MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 


B. A. WORTHINGTON 


T HE first railroad that stretched across 
North America was completed in 1869. 
It was the work of two roads, the Central Pa¬ 
cific and the Union Pacific. From the West 
came the former, its construction beginning 1 at 
San Francisco. Four years later a young, am¬ 
bitious lad, Bert Andrew Worthington, went 
to work as a messenger boy for this same Cen¬ 
tral Pacific. Today he is president of the Cin¬ 
cinnati, Indianapolis & Western Railroad. As 
a resident of Indianapolis, Mr. Worthington 
is known as a man of sterling worth, a staunch 
citizen, one who stands out strongly among 
men of affairs. 

Mr. Worthington was born November 20, 
1861, in Sacramento, California, the son of 
Joseph A. and Kathryn (Murphy) Worthing¬ 
ton. lie received his education in the public 
schools of the citv^ of his birth. 

Railroad men of prominence in the United 
States who have come up from the ranks into 
positions of authority will testify that the mi¬ 
nor occupations of railroading, particularly the 
small town telegraph job, are the interesting 
points along the road to greater things. Mr. 
Worthington has had these experiences for aft¬ 
er his work as messenger boy he subsequently 
became an agent and telegraph operator 
at various places. After six years of this work 
he became chief clerk and secretary to the gen¬ 
eral master mechanic in general car and loco¬ 
motive shops at Sacramento. While holding 
this position Mr. Worthington saAv fit to im¬ 
prove his education by studying mechanical 
engineering. From Sacramento Mr. Worth¬ 
ington went to San Francisco to take a posi¬ 
tion as chief clerk and secretary to the vice- 
president and general manager of the South¬ 
ern Pacific Company. 

In October, 1889, Mr. Worthington married 
Miss Margaret Kilgarif at San Francisco. One 
year later he became secretary to the assistant 


to the president of the road, and from this time 
on his rise was rapid. In 1901 he was promoted 
to the position of superintendent of the Tucson 
Division, then three months later to superin¬ 
tendent of the Coast Division. In 1903 he be¬ 
came assistant to the general manager of the 
Southern Pacific. This was Mr. AVorthing- 
ton’s last position in San Francisco, for on 
April 1, 1904, he was appointed assistant di¬ 
rector of maintenance and operation of the 
Ilarriman Lines with offices in Chicago. Ten 
months later he became vice-president and 
general manager of the Oregon Railroad and 
Navigation Company with headquarters in 
Portland. Not long after this Air. AVorthing- 
ton went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as first 
vice-president of the Wabash Lines east of 
Toledo, and a few months after was appointed 
general manager over the same district, retain¬ 
ing his title of vice-president as well. Air. 
Worthington remained in this position for 
three years, and in June, 1908, was appointed 
receiver for the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad 
Company at Cleveland, Ohio. 

Air. AVorthington’s next executive office 
was attained by election in July, 1912, to the 
presidency of the Chicago & Alton Railroad 
Company. Three years later he was elected 
to the presidency of the Cincinnati, Indianap¬ 
olis & Western, the position he now holds. 

AYhile in Indianapolis he has taken a prom¬ 
inent part in civic affairs, lie is a director of 
the Chamber of Commerce, a position he has 
held for the lasts six years; chairman of the 
Industrial Bureau of the Chamber of Com¬ 
merce; a member of the Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, the Columbia Club, Little Theatre So- 
ciety, the Iloosier Alotor Club, and the Iviwanis 
Club. 

The family resides at 2063 North Delaware 
Street. There are three children: Miss Alay 
Worthington, Airs. Sarah AI. Worthington, and 
Airs. A. J. Shafer. 


675 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



BURRELL WRIGHT 


Photograph by Moorefield 


676 









INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


BURRELL WRIGHT 

g URRELL AYRIGHT, member of the firm of White, Wright & 

McKay, attorneys, was born at Freeport, Illinois, son of Will¬ 
iam 0. and Mary E. (Humphrey) Wright, June 9, 1898. His pre¬ 
liminary education was secured in the public schools of the city of 
his birth, after which he attended Dartmouth College and the 
University of Illinois, at both of which institutions he pursued an 
Academic course. In 1911, however, he entered the College of 
Law at the University of Michigan, and from that institution 
graduated in 1916, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. 

Prior to his entrance to the University of Michigan, Mr. 
Wright came to Indianapolis and here entered the law offices of 
John G. and I). P. Williams, and returned to this association after 
his graduation. Upon the death of Air. John G. Williams and the 
appointment of Air. I). P. Williams to the position of Assistant 
General Council of the Pennsylvania Railroad with headquarters 
at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Air. Wright entered the firm with 
which he is now associated. 

Air. Wright is a member of the William Noble AYallace Post 
of the American Legion, the Columbia Club, Indianapolis Athletic 
Club, Country Club, University Club, Meridian Hills Golf Club, 
Dramatic Club, Civitan Club, Psi LTpsilon college fraternity, Phi 
Delta Phi legal fraternity, and in the Masonic fraternity is a mem¬ 
ber of Excellsior Lodge, No. 97, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite and the 
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the 
Indiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. 

The marriage of Mr. Wright to Aliss Rebecca Swain took 
place at Shelbyville, June 2, 1917. Airs. Wright died March 22, 
1922. There is one daughter, Mary Catherine. 


677 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Moorefield 

DR. J. WILLIAM WRIGHT 




INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 


DR. JOSEPH WILLIAM WRIGHT 

£)R. JOSEPH WILLIAM WRIGHT, son of Joseph and Sarah 

(MacLaren) Wright, was born at Cliatsworth, Ontario, Can¬ 
ada, October 6, 1887. 

In 1896 the subject of this sketch was removed to Indianap¬ 
olis by his parents and it was in the public schools, including the 
Manual Training High School, of this city that he secured his 
early education. Upon the conclusion of his high school course, 
Hr. Wright determined to study medicine and then entered the 
Indiana University School of Medicine at Indianapolis, from 
which he graduated in 1911 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 

During the years since his graduation from medical college^ 
Dr. Wright has established an enviable practice in the treatment 
of diseases of the ear, nose and throat in which he lias specialized. 
At this time he is consultant at the Indianapolis City Hospital and 
a member of the Governing Staff of St. Vincent Hospital and 
among his confreres in the medical profession occupies a promi¬ 
nent place. 

Dr. Wright is a member of the Indianapolis Medical Society, 
Indiana State Medical Society, American Medical Association, 
Indianapolis Ophthalmological and Oto-Laryngolical Society, 
the Indiana Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology. 
the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology, 
and the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. He is also a 
member of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, the Murat Temple 
of the Mystic Shrine, the University Club, the Indianapolis Coun¬ 
try Club, the Highland Golf and Country Club, the Indianapolis 
Athletic Club, and the Little Theatre Society. 

October 19, 1915, Dr. Wright married Miss Mary Ethel 
Woodard at Indianapolis. There is one son, Joseph William 
Wright, Jr. The family residence is 3707 North Meridian Street. 


G79 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Nicholson Bros. 

STANLEY WYCKOFF 


680 









INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


STANLEY WYCKOFF 

CTANLEY WYCKOFF, manager of the Beatrice Creamery 
^ Company and widely known food expert, was born at Riley, 
Ohio, November 22, 1874, son of Alfred G. and Elizabeth (Han¬ 
cock) Wyckoff. ITis forefathers were of the early American 
pioneers. 


The early education of Mr. Wyckoff was received in the pub¬ 
lic schools of his native city, after which, when twenty-one years of 
age, he came to Indianapolis and here found work in a commission 
house. This venture was that which really paved the way for the 
years which have since followed for, as an apprentice in this work, 
Mr. Wyckoff became thoroughly acquainted with the business for 
which lie had strong predilection. 

Upon the conclusion of this work Mr. Wyckoff became inter¬ 
ested in the firm of Glossbrenner-Dodge Company, where he re¬ 
mained until 1910 when he bought the Indianapolis Poultry Com¬ 
pany of which he became president and manager and in which 
capacity he remained until early in 1923, when his company was 
absorbed by the Beatrice Creamery Company and of which, as 
stated, he is now general manager. 

Mr. Wyckoff’s expert knowledge of food supplies, its sources, 
and of its conservation and distribution caused him to be appoint¬ 
ed Federal Food Administrator for Marion County in October, 
1917, which office he held until October, 1919. From October, 
1919, to November, 1920, he served as fair price commissioner for 
Indiana, each of the foregoing appointments being considered 
singular honors during the unsettled times experienced by the 
country during the period of time which he served. 

In this connection it is of interest to here note that to Mr. 
Wyckoff has been awarded by the War Board of the National 
Alumni Association a certificate for patriotic services rendered 
to the nation during the World War. Mr. Wyckoff is a member 
of the American Institute of Political and Social Science of Phila¬ 
delphia, Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Mar¬ 
ion Club, Indianapolis Rotary Club, and the Board of Trade. He 
has always been actively identified with civic undertakings tend¬ 
ing toward the further growth and development of Indianapolis 
and Indiana. 

The marriage of Mr. Wyckoff to Miss Gertrude Pottinger 
occurred at Covington, Ky., May 29, 1893. To this union have 
been born three children, Mildred, now deceased, Rees and Eliza- 
zetli. The family residence is at Thirtieth and Delaware Streets. 


681 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



THOMAS A. WYNNE 


Photograph by Bretzman 




INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


THOMAS ALFRED WYNNE 



HOMAS ALFRED WYNNE, for the last sixteen years vice-president and 


1 treasurer of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company, was born in 
Ottawa, Canada, August 31, 1866. Ilis parents, Thomas and Catherine Wynne, 
moved to Vermont two months later. The father was a construction engineer. 
After a short time in Vermont the family moved to Port Henry, New York, and 
later to Minnesota. It was in Port Henry that Mr. Wynne received his edu¬ 
cation in the public schools of that city. 

Mr. W ynne was for two years connected with the Chicago, Milwaukee & 
St. Paul Railroad. Leaving that company, he took a position with the Arthur 
Ileuey Electric Company of Minneapolis, remaining with that organization 
until 1887, at which time he came to Indianapolis. One year previous to his 
coming he married Mary J. Neal in Minneapolis. The couple had two sons, 
Leslie B. and Thomas N., both of whom are now associated with Mr. Wynne in 
business. The former is a graduate of Cornell, the latter of Wisconsin. 

For two years after coming to Indianapolis Mr. Wynne was identified with 
the Jenny Electric Company. From this business he went with his present 
business associate, Mr. C. C. Perry, to the Marmon-Perry Light Company in the 
capacity of superintendent of construction. 

In 1888 Mr. Wynne assisted Mr. Perry in the organization of a larger 
concern known as the Indianapolis Light and Power Company, which in 1905 
changed its name to the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company. It was in this 
year that Mr. Wynne married Minnie Waterson. 

In the early days, the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company had a com¬ 
paratively small plant, located, however, as it is now, in the center of town. 
Mr. Wynne installed the original plants in the Indianapolis Union Station, the 
old Terre Haute House, and in St. Mary of the Woods in 1888; this was during 
Harrison’s first campaign. It is interesting to note that during Mr. Wynne’s 
thirty-seven years’ experience in electrical work he knows of only one fire re¬ 
sulting directly from electricity, and this came of wrapping a bulb with tissue 
paper. 

Mr. Wynne is a firm believer in specialization and the requirements it occa¬ 
sions. It is said of Mr. Wynne that if a motto be known to him it is fully ex¬ 
pressed in the brief and simple utterance often attributed to him, “Finish the 
job before you quit.” Mr. Wynne has had an important part to play, a part 
that has grown in immensity, common worth and progressiveness, a part that 
reflects completeness in detail, a part of which Mr. Wynne has made, in a quiet, 
determined manner, a truly finished product. 

With civic interest at heart, Mr. Wynne always has been active in club work 
in Indianapolis; he is a member of nearly every club in Indianapolis. He was 
one of the founders of the old Indianapolis Athletic and Canoe Club, which 
flourished under his guidance. lie is president of the Columbia Club at this 
time, and among his other club affiliations are included the Indianapolis Ath¬ 
letic Club, the Highland Golf and Country Club, the Woodstock Club, and the 
Rotary Club. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the 
Board of Trade. 

Mr. Wynne, an active swimmer himself, is responsible, more than any other- 
person, for the present wealth of good swimmers in Indianapolis. He is fond of 
baseball and football and is convinced of the worth of all amateur athletics. 
Work is his hobby. His business life has been along electrical and mechanical 
engineering. 


683 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN 


OF AFFAIRS 



CHARLES C. YORK 


Photograph by Bretzman 


684 















INDIANAPOLIS MEN OP AFFAIRS 


CHARLES C. YORK 


pHARLES C. YORK, general superintendent of tlie Indianap¬ 
olis Candy Company and for many years prominently identi¬ 
fied with the candy manufacturing business in Indianapolis, was 
born near Fortville, Hamilton County, Indiana, October 1, 1867, 
son of William G. and Bellnida (Garverick) York. His early 
education was obtained in the county schools of McCordsville, In¬ 
diana, to which place he was removed by his parents when but a 
child. 


At the age of twelve years, however, he came to Indianapolis 
and in this city immediately entered the candy making business as 
a “cub’’ for Messick & Cones. With this concern Mr. York re¬ 
mained for a period of a little more than six months or until Sep¬ 
tember, 1882, when he entered the employe of Dagget & Company, 
candy manufactureis, with whom he remained for a period of ap¬ 
proximately ten years. This was followed by employment for 
four yeais with the candy manufacturing organization of G. R. 
Wysong & Company but at the end of that time upon the failure 
of the last mentioned, Mr. York became associated with J. F. Dar- 
mody & Company, which organization purchased the defunct Wy¬ 
song concern and with which he remained until April, 1900. 

On April 1, 1900 Mr. York, together with others prominently 
known in the candy making industry, formed a corporation known 
as the Indianapolis Candy Company for the manufacture of con¬ 
fectionary at 225-227 East Maryland Street, and with that com¬ 
pany Mr. York has since been associated as general superintend¬ 
ent. 


During the many years that Mr. York has been engaged in 
the candy manufacturing business he has become prominently 
known throughout the industry as one thoroughly possessed of the 
qualifications required by one who would make a marked success 
in that particular line of endeavor. Since entering the business 
he has invented and placed before the candy manufacturers of the 
country three successful candy making machines which have done 
much toward the economic and more satisfactory manufacture 
of confectionery. 

Mr. York is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Hoosier Athletic Club, Hoosier Motor Club, Iviwanis Club, Logan 
Lodge, Fo. 575, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite, Indiana Consistory 
Valley of Indianapolis, Keystone Chapter, Raper Commanderv, 
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine and the Episcopal Church. 

The marriage of Mr. York to Miss Gertrude McCammon took 
place at Indianapolis on December 25, 1896. There are four chil¬ 
dren, Mis. William Hussey, nee Marion, Ralph O., Carl R., and 
Joe W. The York family resides at 2626 Central Avenue. 


685 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



Photograph by Dexlieimcr 

EDWARD W. ZAISER 


686 











INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


EDWARD W. ZAISER 

F DWARD W. ZAISER, until recently, president of the Ameri¬ 
can Finance Company, and also until recently, secretary and 
treasurer of the Robbins Body Corporation and actively identified 
with other business institutions of Indianapolis, was born at Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio, April 13, 1879, son of Lenoir T. F. and Sophia G. 
(Loselie) Zaiser. His early education was obtained in the public 
schools of Indianapolis and the Manual Training High School of 
this city, after which he became associated with his father in the 
rubber stamp and stencil business. 

In 1903, Mr. Zaiser became interested in the stock and bond 
business and for a period of fifteen years independently operated 
a stock and bond brokerage business. During that time he organ¬ 
ized and sold securities related to a number of the large companies 
of this city, including such issues as those of the Metropolitan 
Realty Company, the Sterling Fire Insurance Company and the 
Federal Finance Company. In 1918 Mr. Zaiser organized the 
American Finance Company, of which he became the president, 
and in 1920 became secretary and treasurer of the Robbins Body 
Corporation. 

Mr. Zaiser is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, Marion Club, Columbia Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, 
Hoosier Athletic Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, and in 
the Masonic fraternity is affiliated with Center Lodge, No. 23, F. 
& A. M., Scottish Rite, Raper Commandery, and Murat Temple 
of the Mystic Shrine. 

The marriage of Mr. Zaiser to Mrs. Mary Finley Reed took 
place at Indianapolis, Indiana, July 7, 1923. 


687 


INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 



688 




INDIANAPOLIS MEN OF AFFAIRS 


WILLIAM A. ZUMPFE 

YY7ILLTAM A. ZUMPFE, son of William and Margaret (Haehl) 
Znmpfe, was born May 23, 1861, at Shelbyville, Indiana. 
When only seven years of age Mr. Znmpfe removed with his par¬ 
ents to Indianapolis and has lived here since that time. He received 
his early education in the public schools of Indianapolis, also be¬ 
gan the study of music quite early in life and in the coiuse of time 
became a prominent violinist. He conducted, for many years, an 
orchestra bearing his name, and was for some time a leader in 
music circles in Indianapolis. 

When sixteen years old he took a position in the Indiana 
National Bank and remained there for eleven years, during which 
time he worked up from a minor position to that of teller. He 
held this position when he tendered his resignation. 

When Mr. Znmpfe left the bank he went into the business of 
Loans and Investments. He has continued with this in part and 
has added to his pursuits a large interest in the X-ray manufac¬ 
turing business in Indianapolis. At the present time, however, 
Mr. Znmpfe has greater interests in the East. He controls a large 
purchasing agency business in the city of Philadelphia. 

Mr. Zumpfe married Miss Ann 0. Mitchell, a daughter of the 
Rev. G. G. Mitchell, Presbyterian minister, September 16, 1891, 
in Indianapolis. There was a daughter, Georgeanna, who died in 
her eighteenth year. 

Mr. Zumpfe is a member of the Columbia Club, the Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Iviwanis Club, 
Athenaeum, and the Highland Golf and Country Club. He has 
offices at 701-702 Odd Fellows Building and resides at 1211 North 
Alabama Street. 


689 


THE MARK OF \^B| J J EXCELLENCE 

AA ENGRSVINGSOOR THIS 
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FORT WAYNE, INDIANA 

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